The Graveyard Book

Hardcover, 312 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2008 by HarperCollins Pub..

ISBN:
9780060530921
OCLC Number:
179806700
Goodreads:
2213661

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3 stars (2 reviews)

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

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2 stars

I know this is a book intended for children, but I kind of wish Gaiman were a little bit subtler about his Chekhov's guns, or at least waited more than a couple pages to fire them.

I actually read this as an eBook borrowed from the SFPL, to try out their system. Unfortunately their DRM scheme meant that I couldn't read it except using Adobe's software on my Mac, which kind of defeated the point (I'd hoped to read it on my phone to see what that experience was like). Glad I chose something short.

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Subjects

  • Dead -- Fiction
  • Supernatural -- Fiction
  • Cemeteries -- Fiction