The Graveyard Book Book Review!

    It took me a while to finally write this review, and I'm pretty excited to write it! When I write reviews I get to think about the book a little longer, and that's always fun. The book I'm reviewing today I read for #FrightFall. It is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. What an introduction to Neil Gaiman! It's the first book I've read by him (apart from half of The Ocean at the End of the Lane) and I'm eager to pick up others!!

  I rate books by three main categories, an extra category if the book deserves a special category for some reason, and the overall enjoyment factor.

The Cover

There are a couple different covers for this book. I have the one listed above, because I like it a bit more than the general one. Also there are other books by Neil Gaiman that have this same cover scheme, and I'm a sucker for that. I just really like how this cover looks. 

The Story

My lord, did I love this story! I haven't seen the Jungle Book in a VERY long time, but I feel like I could figure it out having read the Graveyard Book. The Graveyard Book was so enchanting. I loved Nobody Owens, he was so innocent. It was very different than a lot of books I read now a days. He wasn't a hormonal teenager, he was a boy, growing up in a graveyard. I adored this story so much. There are such lovable characters. 

The story covers mystery, and coming of age, and supernatural elements, and it works so well. I heard great things about this book, and it truly lived up to them. The pictures in this book only added to it! I'm not 100% sure all versions have pictures? I'm unsure, but my version did and I loved getting to the pictures at the chapter title pages. It was so cool being able to see some of the things visualized. Just 100% on story, so very good. 

The Characters

I fell in love with Nobody Owens immediately, as well as his caretaker Silas. He is so innocent, and even though Silas seems detached to everything, you can tell he really truly cares about Bod and that was wonderful to read about. Scarlett was interesting, although I have a hard time seeing why she was really in the book, I'm sure I'm missing something, and there are a few reasons i understand. 

The man Jack, and later the Jack of all Trades are a very interesting and captivating antagonist. Every character in this story was interesting. The Sneer, the Owens family, Liza Hempstock. It was handled so well. 

Overall

This book was beautiful, refreshing and made me eager to read it. The atmosphere Gaiman built in this story is captivating and ingenious. I will not soon forget this book, it's adoring characters, or its endearing message. Well done, Neil Gaiman.

(5/5)