Read It: Let the Right One In

Twelve year old Oscar has no friends, he lives with his mother in the community of Blackeberg outside of Stockholm and his days are filled with getting picked on by his classmates and hiding it from his mother. Until one day he meets Eli, a little girl, the same age as him, who has just moved into the same apartment block with her dad. Eli and Oskar strike up a timid friendship that soon deepens and brings quiet hope into Oskar's existence.
But everything is not as it should be in Blackeberg. A teenage boy is found murdered, drained of blood, and the community is wrought up tight as it waits for the horrific crime to be solved. And Oskar begins to notice things about his new friend; how she never is about during the day, and only comes out to play after dark.

Let the Right One In is a story of heartache, sorrow, hatred, love and friendship, but even more than all those things, it's a story, I feel, about being trapped in your own circumstances and being unable to find your way out of them. It beautifully portrays what happens with our actions once the rings on the surface of our everyday begins to spread and affect those around us. I would recommend you go out and buy this book immediately. John Ajvide Lindquist has managed to write a horror novel that both frightens and touches you to the core.