2010 December

Let the Right One In – A Review

December 8th, 2010 By: Yoshay Lama Lindblom

A treat for all fans of the Gothic genre

It is the 1980s, Oskar a twelve-year-old boy is constantly bullied in school. Going to school and being cornered in the toilet is his biggest fear. There is no escape and the only way he seeks solace is by fantasizing a bloody revenge.
Eli a primitive person in child’s body, dirty, emaciated, hungry and lonely. Eli and Oskar are two painfully lonely people and when they meet, a beautiful friendship is born. A friendship tested through tears, toil and blood. A friendship that comes shining through while the rest of the world around them falls apart…

Swedish Mysteries. Giving You What You Want

December 8th, 2010 By: Yoshay Lama Lindblom

Swedish crime fiction writers score sky-high

Have you ever given Swedish crime fiction (translated of course!) a thought? Have you ever gotten a chance to read a mystery fiction by a Swedish writer? No? Then I must offer heaps of sincere sympathies to you because you do not know what you are missing and while there is still time for you to quickly indulge in one of them, you got to hurry because once you start reading one of them, you just will have to read more and more from the likes of them.