Incredible. It’s easy to call this a game changer in vampire fiction, but what I appreciate almost more is how much Lindqvist knows the tropes and goes “you’ll like it anyway.” Because of that, the book is able to feel familiar and fresh at the same time. The evil at play is neither glorified nor glossed over, and I don’t think there’s been such a happy bad ending in literature. I can go on for days about how good this is, but I’ll leave it at this: for as good as the movie was, the book has lived up to my expectations. Well worth the time.