It is exciting and surprising and, at times, achingly sad. It is full of fabulous characters that almost leap off the page. It grabs you and simply refuses to let go until the end and after. This book has the most superlatively chilling first chapter. Will Bod be able to solve the mystery, or will he become one of the ghosts in the graveyard? He is still out there looking for Bod, determined to complete his mission from years ago. But danger lurks outside the graveyard in the form of Jack, the man who killed Bod’s family. Parallel to that, Silas evolved as a father figure and learned to let Bod make mistakes and be a living boy outside of the Graveyard.Īs Bod grows older, his desire to seek the outside world grows, too. ⠀īod had a childhood of motley lessons, plus he had to learn to make his own mistakes and the consequences of his actions. Some of my very favorites were Silas (his guardian, who is neither living nor dead), Miss Lupescu (a werewolf) and Liza (a young ghost witch). There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy - an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer.īod encounters so many fantastic characters in this story. He was then taken in by the ghosts of the graveyard. Why? Because when he was just a baby, the rest of his family was murdered, and he escaped. I cannot properly express how moved I was by this story, what I did not expect: to be in literal tears at the end of this book.īod Owens lives in a graveyard. And as someone who grew up reading quite a lot of Dickens, it really touched my heart. I loved the diction and dialogue so much, and the characters were just so delightful- almost Dickensian. I have been meaning to read his work forever and finally got a chance to dive in!
This was actually my first Neil Gaiman book.
Nobody “Bod” Owens is a living boy raised by ghosts in an old cemetery, and he is the main character of Neil Gaiman’s brilliant novel, “The Graveyard Book.” The book is a perfect story for this time of year: full of spookiness but also beautiful, hopeful insights about life. In moments like this, I wish I was a child growing up with Neil Gaiman’s books. “You’ll be one of the select band, of the cleverest, strongest, bravest creatures ever,” bragged the Bishop of Bath and Wells. “Nope,” said the 33rd President of the United States. “Nor I,” said the Emperor of China, proudly. “I don’t remember anything about the days before I was a ghoul,” said the famous writer Victor Hugo. GAYATHRI KRISHNAMOORTHY, Evergreen columnist
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