by Neil Gaiman
Started reading this Friday evening, finished Sunday morning. All in all, took about 5-6 hours. That's pretty alright for my reading rate. Well, I got the book from the library because Cereal said she was reading Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman and it was alright.
The book is about a little boy whose family was killed and he was at birth without living parents. He crawled his way to the cemetery and was raised by ghosts, the Owens and the cemetery community as a whole. They gave him the name Nobody 'Bod' Owens. And the book tells of his adventures growing up to a teenager, and all the while the person who killed his biological family is still looking for him. He also gets awesome powers by the way, so that's always nice.
This book was like the play I saw Saturday night. The start was very very promising and absolutely lovely, but halfway through I sort of got disillusioned. The story just felt slightly disjointed, the ending left me sort of wanting and not in a very good way. Felt some things were under developed, and also felt some bits of the story was ripped off from others (Tolkien, and Agatha Christie). Still as a whole it was still pretty good, I liked the story. Some parts of his writing style is absolutely wonderful. Plus just found out he wrote Coraline, so look forward to reading more of his stuff.
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