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rae_rif 's review for:
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
i would give this a 3.8. i did really like it, and read it in a few days. but i didn't love it the way i loved some of his other works. it was as dark as coraline at parts, and mostly about a 7 year old, but still not YA. i liked lettie, her mom ginnie, and grandma hempstock, they were very intriguing characters and i would not have minded learning more about them, including more about their backstory and powers. idk, the bad...things (for lack of a better word) were just so nebulous. like how ursala monkton was basically just grey strips of cloth underneath it all. and how when the "varmints" came to eat her up and then started eating other things, they just left a grey blankness of something that never existed. idk, def kinda cool, but also not something i will necessarily remember later. overall, the book had the same problem i sometimes have with reading things on a kindle. where the book never really feels like it comes together well in a cohesive way. i was about half way through the book before i realized ursala monkton was essentially the villain.