4.5 Stars
The story begins with the dreadful murder of a family. A young toddler is the only survivor that fateful night. The little boy manages to escape when he decided to go exploring. His exploration leads him outside to a nearby graveyard. The innocent young toddler does not know he is being pursued by an assassin.
His recently departed mother knows her son is still in danger. She frantically appears in the graveyard and pleads to the spirits and ghosts buried there to take her son in, shelter him, and protect him from harm.
That is exactly what they do.
This begins the story of Nobody Owens. Though the beginning of The Graveyard Book is bleak, this coming of age story is fascinating and will keep you in suspense.
Nobody, called Bod, lives in the graveyard. His family is a host of ghosts and spirits. Along the way, Bod frequently finds himself in danger; at times, from graveyard spirits less than kind to the living.
He also continues to be hunted by the man who destroyed his family. As Bod gets older, he yearns for the outside world. He outgrows the younger spirits who used to play with him, and Bod wants to experience life on his own. In order to have a life in the world beyond the graveyard gates, Bod finds himself in a position of fighting for his life once more.
Can he defeat the evil man who wants him dead? Will Bod be able to leave the only family he knows and loves behind?
This story is magical and unlike any that I have ever read before. Nail Gaiman creates a fascinating setting, interesting characters with a variety of stories to tell, and manages to weave humor, fear, and emotion into each page he has written.
Highly recommended
this book is so good for people that like scary books.neil gaimam is a grate writer he has more books out you shude read them
ReplyDeleteThis book is so good. Its really interesting especially when they start talkin about history from way... bak. this book is for people who love scary movies nd books.. Its so awesome the first few pages mite be fun but after awhile it gets alittle boring.. BUT STILL READ IT☻
ReplyDeletethis book is writen by neil gaiman he realy good speacily this book because it gives so many scary details on it and iwould have yo say that this books is one of my faverites out of every book i have read co i recomen this book because its really spooky and realy realy good so give it a try
ReplyDeleteThough I am not a big fan of the horror spectrum, this book was well thought out, full of suspensfull turns, and i loved every minute! Myself personally, would not define this as horror, it had an almost constant serious tone, and the moments that got a bit freightening were in tight controll. I love the fact the Bod, isnt raised in the world outside the graveyard, because he would be so different. Even at a young age he had i diverse old english vocabullary, and thats so hard to find these days. I loved the fact that when Nick and Mo are taking the 4th graders money, and they refere to themselves as "Batman and Robin", Bod commented "more like Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde". His knowledge is remarkable!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis book is absoulutley wonderful. I love how it gives a thriller feel to it. I would say this is not scare becuase the way the author explains it it is more serious. It shows how lucky some people are. It also shows how Anything/ anybody can love a human being! I love everypage and simply would not put the book down! I recommend this book to all student/teachers/people in genral who love suspense thrillers. *****Five stars exactly!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis book is probably the best book I have read so far for the top tiger. I like that this book has lots of suspense. I love the fact that the ghost are willing to take care of the boy. But I don't like that a man is trying to kill the little baby boy and already killed the family. At the beginning of the book I was thinking to myself why was the parents not really keeping a good eye on the child. If i had to rate this book I would give it a **********10 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletethis book was one of the best books i have read this year. it is adventurest and exsiting. i think anyone who reads this book will love it.
ReplyDeletein the book there is a assassin and the assassin kills a little kids family. the little kid survives i mean the suspense in the book is great the boy is bascically raised in agrave yard. i think that is what makes the book really good a little kid raised in a grave yard. so i think this is one of my favrites. anybody that dosent like this book is crazy.
ReplyDeletethis book is absoulutley wonderfoul this book is about a assasion who kills the little boys parents and tries to kill him to he runs away into the grave yard and the goast raise him.
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