''LITTLE STAR'' by John Ajvide Lindqvist.Finished reading on Monday. Not often I describe a book as''unputdownable'' but this was. Where the true horror is not in graphic detail, but the horror of self-discovery that your mind is filling in the details. Horror, not that you can identify with the lead characters Theres and Teresa, but horror that you envy them their willpower to carry out their mission. A novel for girls to acknowledge their darkside, and for boys to wet their pants. The pic of the Hitachi auto-drill is relevant. To find out more, read the story. It ain't used for D.I.Y. to make Home Sweet Home. That's fersure. The perfect weapon to carry in your shoulderbag.
His fourth novel sees him back on form closer to ''Let The Right One In''. Will be difficult to put all of it into a film as it is longitudinal, and weighs in at over 500 pages. I certainly imagined it as a film, with the (juvenile) Bex and Lex in the lead roles. Theres is meant to be an angelic blonde masking a foundling sociopath, but I'm sure Bex eyes and maniacal thousand-yard stare would have more than compensated. Lex as Teresa, a figure creating havoc on the internet and disintegrating from a girl with attitude into an avenging angel from Hell. The unspoken love and bonding between them creating a deadly synchronicity and emotional chemistry as other girls get swept into the vortex of their machinations.
Read, but be prepared to sign up for counselling afterwards. Meheheheh