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A review by filippawe
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
adventurous
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Escapism and comfort, that’s what you get.
s104
“Does it work? Are they happier dead?”
“Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
s306
”’Face your life
Its pain, its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken’”
s307
“But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.”
s104
“Does it work? Are they happier dead?”
“Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
s306
”’Face your life
Its pain, its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken’”
s307
“But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent and Murder
Moderate: Death