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Una Piccola Stella (2010)

by John Ajvide Lindqvist(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8831714619 (ISBN13: 9788831714617)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Marsilio

review 1: This is the third book by the author I have read.Translation is good. I felt it was not as "complete" as The Harbor. Not sure if that was a chosen style, a translation thing, or if the author was just writing faster, not putting the same kinds of very complex sentences together in this one. It has supernatural elements, but is more psychological. If you like true crime, this may appeal strongly. I don't want to give away anything, but will say that because I live in America, this is perhaps less compelling for me than it might be if I lived elsewhere. A little too realistic in some ways, for me.
review 2: I had only read "Let the Right One In" before this, and compared to that book at the very least, Little Star is quite different. It seems to be a departure fr... moreom his usual style of having many background characters, focusing primarily on only a handful of people this time. Only in the epilogue does he go back to that, but in a strangely lampshaded way, introducing people moments before they meet their gruesome end. On the other hand, the tight focus on Theres and Teresa felt a lot more intimate, but in a sort of claustrophobic, scary way that worked well with the tone of the book.Overall I liked this book a lot and the suspense was enough to keep me reading, but I felt somewhat let down by the ending. I had wanted, perhaps naively, to know what was behind all of it. Who or what was Theres, why was she in the woods to begin with? I can see this as a sort of "humans are the worst monsters of all" statement but I don't think it really worked. Even if he doesn't usually refer to the supernatural things he's writing about by name (I don't remember if the word "vampire" was ever actually mentioned in Let the Right One In), it's usually easy enough to glean that from the description... Here, there weren't any of those clues along the way.Anyway, I enjoyed it in spite of that. Pick it up if you like stories about outsiders, moral ambiguity, and aren't squicked out easily. less

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