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The Blurb On The Back:

You thought you had put your worst mistake behind you.

It’s still there.

Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone too. This is a place with no sun. No god.

Just four families remain. Each has done something to bring them here - each denies they deserve it. Until they see what's coming over the horizon, moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest fear.

And for just one of them, their homecoming.

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The Verdict:

John Ajvide Lindqvist’s horror novel (the first in a trilogy and translated from Swedish by Marlaine Delargy) is a disquieting, creepy affair that’s built around slightly generic but still well drawn characters and even though there’s no real explanation for what’s happening and the resolution is vague, I was gripped enough to want to read the sequel when it’s released.

I AM BEHIND YOU was released in the United Kingdom on 7th September 2017. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.

The Blurb On The Back:

Twelve-year-old Oskar is an outsider; bullied at school, dreaming about his absentee father, bored with life on a dreary housing estate. One evening he meets the mysterious Eli. As a romance blossoms between them, Oskar discovers Eli’s dark secret – she is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood.

Now a major feature film, Let The Right One In is a disturbing and brilliant reworking of the vampire legend, and a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.

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The Verdict:

A tense, chilling horror novel with a core central relationship between the two central characters that’s subtly portrayed and open to interpretation, this is a brilliant an absorbing read and holds surprises even if you are already familiar with the movie adaptation.