Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ebba Segerberg

56 reviews

klimtsonian's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Gory, graphic, and gripping. Perfectly juxtaposes the mundanity and sterility of modern, suburban existence with the pervasiveness of horror in every form — from the systemic to the supernatural. The prose is straightforward and incisive, with some really stomach-turning descriptions that linger on the details just enough to get the point across without reveling in it. Even through it all, there’s a hopeful, tender core to the story: that there is someone out there for everyone, no matter how fucked up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Body horror

Minor: Addiction

teaandtales1's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This is a really well-written book that I did not care for. There's dark and bleak and then there's this book. As an avid horror reader it takes a lot to make me want to skim certain parts of a book because it's just *too much,* but I felt the need to do that on multiple occasions. There was just so much in this book that didn't really need to be there, and in the process I felt the story dragging me down further and further into its well of darkness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Sexual violence, Suicide, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury

morebedsidebooks's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Pedophilia, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Trafficking, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Homophobia, Racism, and Death of parent

Also contains scenes of genital mutilation and substance abuse.

mafaichney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Xenophobia

vlpfeiffer's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I've been curious about this book for quite a while and finally picked it up. I had seen the movie when I was much younger and remember the atmospheric and tense vibes that really appealed to me. After struggling to get through halfway I watched the film again and realized I much prefer the film, which is a rare phenomenon. But watching it did get me to finish the book to finish the comparison. 

There were several arcs that seemed unnecessary and it seems that the filmmakers felt the same. Several characters I was forced to slog through with little to no connection to the plot until the end. And the relationship to Hakan, which

in the film was more mysterious and felt more like a genuine father/daughter or thrall situation turned into an unnecessarily disgusting portrayal of a pedophile who has latched himself onto this child vampire in an attempt to assuage his proclivities by way of justifying it through the lens of 'she's not REALLY a kid so it's okay'. All the while some of the most vile descriptions of sexual attraction and behavior towards children seemed unnecessary and just there to horrify. Which, duh, horror, but for my personal tastes was not a thread I was happy about.

 

Otherwise, things were neatly tied together with a hint of sweet justice for Oskar's antagonists and a deserved outcome for Hakan. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Torture, and Murder

c0rpsekat's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Torture, Excrement, and Medical content

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

kaanda's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Extremely dark in so many ways, but fantastic at holding tension. Truly horrific.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

rocketsaurus's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

Not a bad book per se, but so wildly outside of what I want to read more of I cannot let the Storygraph algorithm think I liked it. Finished our of pure spite. Incredibly fucked up, and if that's your thing you're gunna love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

amoremeg's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This book was hard to get through. The dialogue was difficult to follow and often felt jumpy or truncated or stilted. I believe (I hope) there was some elegance lost in the translation. There are no winners. I don't know if any of the characters are actually good people. Maybe some are trying but it feels like the impulse to act out always wins, the impulse to not communicate always wins. There are so many irrelevant characters who did not need names and backstories- they were only introduced at all to bear witness to some moment, to be a third person perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Excrement, and Vomit

cantfindmybookmark's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual assault, and Torture