Book Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Last year, life impinged on my reading time. This year, I decided to make reading a priority ( see my reading list here ) and as my first book for 2015, I eagerly picked up the children's book The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. This is the back cover blurb, Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks for it is there that the man Jack lives and he had already killed Bod's family. Neil Gaiman's dark, rich imagination has always appealed to me, ever since I read Neverwhere . His tone of writing voice is thoughtful, poetic and often unpredictable, pulling you along through his stories. The Graveyard Book begins in a very dark way - murder. It introduces us immediately to the assassin, the man Jack and the peril that our protagoni...