Realistic and Fantastic Elements in the story

John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel Let The Right One In, was a bestseller in his native Sweden, now converted (by Ebba Segerberg) into English it is accessible for readers in both the UK and the US. Confusingly the UK and US versions are released under two distinct names, with the American type of this novel deserving “Let Me In” other than “Let The Right One In.” (Rosemary, 85-95)

Let The Right One In is an odd combine of communal novel and vampire horror. Set in the early 1980s in a dejected suburb of Stockholm it makes for bleak, yet convincing, reading. Every feature appears to have a dreary reality, where the boredom is only alleviated by alcoholic beverage, pharmaceuticals, glue-sniffing or shop raising and petty robbery counting on the characters' individual preference. Even Eli (the vampire) has a dreary reality, except that rarely she gets to proceed out and murder somebody for body-fluid, but even this more of a chore than an stimulating interlude for her. (Eric, 125-150)

A terrifying supernatural story yet furthermore a going account of companionship and salvation...Lindqvist's dark fable would be gratuitously brutal if it weren't so intelligently written...devastating deduction - The Guardian Lindqvist's large power as a author is his evocation of time and place. The cheapjack monotony of Oskar's reality is as vividly appreciated as the scenes of gore splashed mayhem...it supports its cult rank in Scandinavia with its distracting and assuring take on the banal repugnance of normality - Time Out Reminiscent of Stephen King at his best, there are some really scary morsels in the publication that will haunt your dreams. Best read by sunlight - Independent On Sunday Fascinatingly, Lindqvist has reinvented the vampire novel and made it all the more chilling by setting it in the kind of go under land parcel we all understand from the media. No signify achievement (Christine , 11-28).

Oskar is awfully bullied at school and this makes for some painful reading. The petty cruelties inflected upon him by the bullies have isolated him from young children his own age, and this is why he makes associates with Eli, another isolated outsider, so easily. Eli boosts Oskar to comic to the bullies and battle back - but this only directs to escalating violence.

Possibly the most distracting part of Let The Right One In is Håkan, the man who examines after Eli and procures body-fluid ...