The Graveyard Book

Title: The Graveyard Book
Author: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fantasy

You would like this book if:

• You like to read ghost stories or believe in ghosts.
• You like books that only come together at the end of the novel.
• You enjoyed Coraline, the book or the movie (same author!)
• You are fascinated by the history of cemetaries and dead people.
• You like to visualize things that are impossible based on what you read.

You wouldn't like this book if:

• You like to read books that are realistic.
• You are scared of the dark.
• You like books that explain mysterious events right away.

The first chapter is startling: murder and an orphan saved from abandonment by ghosts!  I promise I am not spoiling anything for eager readers because all of this occurs within the first 30 pages, literally.  This dark, mysterious novel is about Bod, short for Nobody, Owens and his life living amongst the long-dead in a graveyard.  His family and friends (all ghosts) have vowed to raise and protect Bod from a violent killer who hunted his parents and is now hunting him.  Each chapter reads like a different short story but all of the pieces come neatly together at the end. 
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