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A review by bloom9159
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
4.0
Surprising in a myriad of ways!
First and foremost, I don’t like stories without a plot. Stories that meander and end up in strange and ultimately irrelevant (to the story) places are usually not my thing, mostly because I find it harder to focus on a book if it doesn’t have a strong central storyline. Which is why I was so shocked that I enjoyed The Graveyard Book quite a bit!
We follow “Bod”, short for “Nobody”, a human boy raised by ghosts in a local cemetery in order to protect him from the people that murdered the rest of his family. This protection, and who he’s being protected from, are the main plot of the story. Yet we follow Bod as he gets into all kinds of eyebrow raising magical mischief at many different points in his life, many incidents in which there is magic that goes unexplained. Normally I would say a book structured like this isn’t for me, but there’s an exception to every rule, and I’m so glad I picked this one up!
First and foremost, I don’t like stories without a plot. Stories that meander and end up in strange and ultimately irrelevant (to the story) places are usually not my thing, mostly because I find it harder to focus on a book if it doesn’t have a strong central storyline. Which is why I was so shocked that I enjoyed The Graveyard Book quite a bit!
We follow “Bod”, short for “Nobody”, a human boy raised by ghosts in a local cemetery in order to protect him from the people that murdered the rest of his family. This protection, and who he’s being protected from, are the main plot of the story. Yet we follow Bod as he gets into all kinds of eyebrow raising magical mischief at many different points in his life, many incidents in which there is magic that goes unexplained. Normally I would say a book structured like this isn’t for me, but there’s an exception to every rule, and I’m so glad I picked this one up!