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This title was recommended to me by a former student who is now a sophomore at UNH. She said it was the BEST BOOK SHE’D EVER READ. After reading the review, I think I’m too squeamish to read the gory murder segments… Here is the review from Amazon:
Swedish author Lindqvist’s debut, a horror novel, offers few twists that won’t already be familiar to readers of modern vampire fiction. Oskar, a much bullied 12-year-old schoolboy living in a Stockholm suburb, notices that his next-door neighbor, Eli, has some peculiar traits: Eli only comes out at night, smells like death warmed over and is of ambiguous gender. Eventually, Eli reveals he’s a vampire who survives by feeding off the neighborhood lowlifes. Occasionally, his bite accidentally turns victims into undeads who, unaware of their vampirization, go on rampages that end in spectacularly gruesome fates. As sweet as the pure and wholesome friendship between Oskar and Eli may be, it’s the gory set pieces that propel the predictable plot. (Oct.)
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Lisa Houde Rye Public Library
Gory and appealing to boys more than girls, I think. Doesn’t really have a message. More just entertainment. And it was made into a movie.
-Kelly Budd, KHS