Meh. It ended up following a completely different path than I thought it would. It veers from one disturbing plotline to the next. The story nevers quite feels like it flows naturally. Instead it feels like Lindqvist is forcing it to go wherever he wants. Jerry, in the end, seems to be vastly underused and kind of pointless? Once he had Theres there was no point to his character, other than taking her to the Idol auditions. This book is definitely not for the faint of heart or easily offended. As someone who reads a fair amount of crime and horror, this book was pretty disgusting/horrifying in terms of what characters do and what happens. Overall an underwhelming read with spots of promise and potential. When you get to the epilogue of this book, go on youtube and search Amanda Seyfried's cover of "Thank you for the music" by abba, click play, read & behold one of the most epic endings to grace the horror genre in recent history. JAL does it again, and i know now without a doubt this author is one of the most underrated authors of our generation. No buzz of him on TV, no huge word of mouth, aside from LTROI no fan art of his awesome characters. A deeply buried gem this man is, and when this book exploded across my mind it produced a mushroom cloud as big as the one made by LTROI.JAL seems to understands the tendrils of human nature extremely well: Greed, pedophilia, internet bullies, those longing for love holding a crap hand, tenderness, love, evil and ultimate fear/embracing of the end. Only having read about the columbine massacre and VA tech massacre, i have come to wonder how such horrible things can ever come to fruition and reading this book helped me to understand it somewhat. How human beings can be pushed into such despair they fall into not existence and within that non existence search for life, life to extinguish, life to welcome into mutual non-existence and its always the innocent who suffer for it. "Everyone is really called something else..."5/5 stars, it was never a question.
What do You think about Little Star (2010)?
this book was twisted and fantastic! definitely gives you a lot to think about. great read!
—jarrod
It was bloody and dark.. think he wrote it in the depths of a cold Swedish winter!
—caitlenmaia
