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Koralina

Neil Gaiman

4.08 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Coraline es un libro corto y aun así increíble. Llevaban años recomendandome al autor y con este libro ha conseguido entrar por la puerta grande.

La película me encantaba pero es que el libro es otra cosa, una trama sencilla llena de elementos del terror y fantasía que consiguen provocarte terror, ternura y emoción en solo 155 páginas. Hay que ser muy grande como escritor para conseguir eso.

Volvería a leerlo y desde luego volveré a leer libros de Neil Gaiman
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Creo que haber visto la peli antes de leer el libro hizo que aumentara mis expectativas. Sigue siendo una gran historia, aunque esperaba más detalles.
adventurous dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

As someone who watched the movie before reading the book. It was interesting to see what was similar to the other vs what was changed, added and left out. And since I watched coraline first I was a little heart brocken my favorite character (after coraline) Wybie wasn't even written in the story to begin with. I did really enjoy marking down anything that I feel is foreshadowing a future moment in the story. 


3.75: really fun book and different enough from the movie that it was still interesting to read. I think i do prefer the movie bc they had more time to develope the charactors and that it took coraline more time to become suspisous (also i did like the idea in the book that simply having the stone on her made her less suseptable to the belldams tricks, it was a fun easter egg)
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Creeped me out! I loved being creeped out. Nough said. Grades 4+
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Coraline is creepy! I just finished it and I don't want to go to sleep in case of the button-eyed witch will get me in my sleep. I don't know how children could read this and ever sleep by themselves again. I really enjoyed it even though I was thoroughly creeped out the entire time. I was a little apprehensive because I didn't care for Stardust but this is great. Gaiman's fairy tales are going to last a very long time. People are going to read his stuff fifty years from now and still enjoy them.