I saw Let the Right One In at the beginning of the year in a little indie theater up in Salt Lake City.  I thought it was a great film and it made me really want to read the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist.  So, I went out in search of the paperback.

I found myself standing in a bookstore staring at a copy of the book as it sat on a table among other currently popular titles.  I really wanted to buy Let the Right One In, but I did not want this book. The cover design was really bad…embarrassingly bad if you ask me.

But with no available alternative, I did buy the book, and soon after finishing it, I was a bit excited and did some drawings based on Lindqvist's characters:  Eli, and another character that doesn't show up in the film version whom I will call "Cyclops."

Using the Eli Illustration, I mocked up my own LTROI book cover.

To be fair, I did leave mine cleaner, without all the badly placed copy that I'm sure just has to be on the US film release edition of the book. 

I think we should judge more books by their covers, and that the art on the outside should be a formidable companion to the literary art on the inside.