The Graveyard Book (edit title)

• Rated 5 stars

“Brilliant writing!”

• Rated 3 stars

“A good book overall. As an older reader, I was a little bored after promising beginning, and then I got really interested when Bod started going to school. Before then, it was like a series of disconnected events. I don't know if it there was a publishing problem, but some of the sentences were confusing because they lacked proper punctuation.
Besides these things, I really enjoyed the last half of the book and was surprised at how sad I was that Bod would be leaving the graveyard and Silas. I believe this is a very good book for young readers. I'm sure it'll catch young reader's imagination. I'm gonna keep an eye out if and when there's a squeal.”

• Rated 4 stars

“A great read delightfully set in a graveyard with the most interesting inhabitants. A little disappointing that the story behind Bods family murders was never fully explored but I suppose the story was about the after not the why. Bod is a likable character, with the usual adolescent desire to test the boundaries and to disobey the rules put in place to protect him. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“Wonderful!”

• Rated 4 stars

“Bod is a boy that has been raised up by ghosts and ghouls. He has always been safe in the graveyard, and he also made a new friend. But now the Man Jack is trying to finish the kill of Bod's family, and Bod will be losing his happy times. Will he be able to survive?”

• Rated 5 stars

“This is a delightful book about a boy that lives and is raised in a graveyard.”

• Rated 4 stars

“I’m not the biggest Neil Gaiman fan going. I found Sandman a bit too angsty for my taste. Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) was all right, and I haven’t felt compelled to read American Gods (at least not yet).

But I really enjoyed The Graveyard Book. Maybe it was because I got the book for free. Maybe it had to with the fact Gaiman made the character of Nobody Owens and the inhabitants of the Graveyard work for me. I know the Newberry Award is given for young adult/children’s literature but I’m surprised this book didn’t compete for some of the adult fantasy awards (all right I just fact checked myself it won this year’s Hugo and was short listed for the World Fantasy and Locus awards).

Not only did Bod (which is what Nobody is most often called) work for me, but so did most of the graveyards inhabitants. We also get delightful turns on vampires and werewolves, well at least slightly off the usual beaten path for these horror archetypes IMO.

Also, I think what helped make this book work for me was that the whole “larger’ story really doesn’t matter. Oh, it gets resolved. But I would have enjoyed the book just as much if it had been left hanging. Because what matters is Bod’s journey from child to young adult.

I think most fantasy readers will enjoy this book whether they purchase it, or rent it from their library. It is an “all ages” book and I know that puts some people off, but I think adults can enjoy this books as much as pre-teens and teens.
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• Rated 5 stars

“A fantastical twisting of The Jungle Book, The Graveyard Book is by far Gaiman's best novel directed at 'children,' though its dark subject matter and intelligent writing make it a fantastic pick for adults as well.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Very interesting gaggle of characters to say the least. A child raised by ghosts, growing up to solve his parents murder. I wonder where the author came up with this idea?”

• Rated 5 stars

“grate book supper awesome read soooo worth it.”