This is the third book by Neil Gaiman, I read (for "Neverwhere" and "the ocean at the end of the lane") and the first one that has left me really happy. Because here Gaiman adheres to a Concluded in itself narrative with a coherent plot. Of course you would have the story of the boy Nobody Owens, who, just the massacre of his family escape, as an infant ends up in a graveyard and is brought up by the there resident ghosts, can make in character deeper, but that's as far as I can judge it, not really Gaiman's strength. And then if what Gaiman wants to tell his Geschte, namely a fairy tale, perhaps perished in Seenlenspiegelungen. What this author really good at, is to populate absolutely fantastic addition worlds with incredibly slanted, lovable or abysmally nasty figures, stick in the memory of the reader, and always ready to keep a twinkle in his eye. It is never too scary, never too hideous, never too heroic and never sentimental. In this he quite succeed very memorable scenes, like this the farewell scene between Nobody and his ghostly adoptive mother. The cemetery and its inhabitants are a pretty lively place, although hardly a survivor lost there, and the reader, it seems perfectly understandable that Owen feels comfortable and this place look at there as his home, especially since he has a few properties "inherited" that ordinary mortals are denied, such as invisibility and Angsteinjagen. If desired, the book can also be seen as one about growing up, because the boy Nobody has to ultimately leave the circumscribed, salvaged world its cemetery, where everything always remains as it has always been, and out into the real world. But I think that deep interpretations of Gaiman's stories reaching too far. What I find interesting, is how to deal with this author and well-known as it were canonized elements of fantasy genre. He interprets it not new, has them to any new features, but weaves them all into his unangestengt history. In this book both a vampire occur before and a werewolf, without these being namentlcih identifies as such. Both are simply serving the action with no clearly defined behaviors such as sucking blood or human-disassembly exercise. On the contrary, both are correct personable and downright bourgeois normal. Anyway, most of the time. But delicious is the description of unsavory Ghouls. There may have been a small tribute to the fantastic worlds HP.Lovecrafts. All in all, a despite or because of its macabre contents warm and cozy book, something for people who are the great stories over more than open-minded and like to sometimes make a walk through the cemetery.
