The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Here we are with another bad review written on the same day as another bad review.

I'm just gonna give you the synopsis before I start talking about my thoughts.

Synopsis:

Nobody Owens (that is his name...), known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal is he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. 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. Bt if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack - who has already killed Bod's family.

I really wanted to like this book. It sounded exactly like something I would enjoy. But with the mixture of many things the likeliness of me liking this book deteriorated pretty quickly.

To start with I am going to talk about the length of the chapters. Each chapter was between 30 and 50 pages. I am one of those people who like reading short chapters. I feel like when I am reading short chapter I am reading more, if that makes sense. But with long chapters, a lot of the time, things just drag out, and thats what I felt like with this book.

Another this I disliked was the writing. So I've read Coraline by the same author and found the writing to be manageable, I enjoyed Coraline. And because Coraline was a short book the writing style fit. But with The Graveyard Book, the writing style did not. You can assume that I am not going to be reading any more books that are written by Gaiman, no thank you.

And the sad thing is I really did like the first 2 chapters. But then everything went down hill from there.

I DNFed this book at chapter 4 and am not reading anymore!!

I rated this book 2 out of 5 stars.

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