The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2008.
This
book fascinated me, from the opening line “There was a hand in the
darkness, and it held a knife;” to the end, “But between now and then,
there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide
open.”
In
between we are introduced to a fantastic world of the graveyard, where
people no longer age, but continue in spirit at the age they were when
they died. This graveyard is special, because the inhabitants show
charity towards a baby who comes to them in need. The people of the
graveyard take the baby in, and nurture him, and care for him, and give
them of their special graveyard powers, like fading, and haunting, and
being able to walk through walls. This story also has the intensity of a
murder mystery, and murder adventure, and fantasy of the underworld,
and all the dangers of the graveyard, and the danger outside of the
graveyard. This was a very fun read. It was also a very quick book,
and I recommend it highly.
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