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A review by bookishblunoser
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
5.0
I hung out in graveyards when I was young. My father, steeped in his skepticism made us tour the graveyards, often at night, to prove that it was in fact the end. I never believed it and I imagined a life and an afterlife for every name on every gravestone.
Neil Gaiman is definitely one of my favourite authors and this story holds a special place in my heart. Nobody Owens, unapologetically adventurous, adopted and raised by ghost parents and educated by a solitary vampire guardian leaves the safety of the graveyard to join the dangerous land of the living. I loved every whispered word, every shadow, every vapour and mist. It was rich and heavy and so easily imagined that it may be time for me to dance again, among the graves, escorted by the dead.
Neil Gaiman is definitely one of my favourite authors and this story holds a special place in my heart. Nobody Owens, unapologetically adventurous, adopted and raised by ghost parents and educated by a solitary vampire guardian leaves the safety of the graveyard to join the dangerous land of the living. I loved every whispered word, every shadow, every vapour and mist. It was rich and heavy and so easily imagined that it may be time for me to dance again, among the graves, escorted by the dead.