A review by tawfek
Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman

4.0

There is a whole thing out there, and it's all part of living.
The good bits, and the bad bits, and the dull bits, and the painful bits...

Death walks the earth in mortal form one day each 100 years.
The Target is for her to try life and to try death, to feel compassion for humans.
To eat and breath (yeah turns out the endless don't breath!) and live one day only each 100 years.
The world accommodates her very presence, everyone is giving her things for free, because she doesn't have much money, yeah screw that Lucifer series guy, who had infinite money, our goth girl had only 10 dollars and 2 cents, and wait till you see what the 2 cents will be used for.
As we come to expect from Gaiman we get many interesting characters.
Mad Hettie, is obviously a 250 years old witch, why is she hiding her heart?
is it being hidden from death herself so she can go on living?
Sexton, made me think of something, is it a rule or something that people who get bullied in their life, actually turn out the nicest most decent people later on?

I hate it when things become surreal.

As readers we love it when things become surreal in a story we are reading, but in real life? i don't think anyone of us would find it a good thing at all, Sexton has to go through this first hand, but among all the weird surreal things that are happening, Sexton was on the verge of suicide, so what did he have to lose? His run in with Death Herself, actually made him want to continue to live, whenever Death enters someone's life it changes it for the better, except for when she is killing babies of course by orders of the Almighty.
The macabre depressing singer was interesting, but only because i was wondering if neil gaiman was the one actually writing her songs.
We also have the mysterious Blind Eremite and his apprentice, whose goal was to steal the Ankh of Death.
I thought about this, does the Ankh really have power? like Dream's Tools?
and it did seem to have some kind of power for a while, Death seemed lost and seemed to be forgetting everything that she is without the Ankh, but then she just bought a new one, and it took on her powers immediately, The Ankh by itself is not power, the power comes from Death, she just needs an Item to channel it, and i honestly think that it could be any item.

It would be really good if death could be somebody funny and friendly and nice and maybe just a tiny bit crazy.

That's what Neil Gaiman gave us and we love him to death because of it.