I wouldn’t have guessed that Neil Gaiman‘s The Graveyard Book was my kind of book. I’m not usually into the macabre or horror. But it is. It really is.

I like the strongly developed characters in here. They’re quirky, but not so quirky that they seem flat or impossible.

I also like the adventures that arise from the central heart of the story. When a child is in so much danger that ghosts must hide him from his enemies and raise him as their own, the child, naturally, has an unusual life.

What do I like best, though? The wildly original magic.

All in all, The Graveyard Book lives up to its Newbery. It even lives up to all the other hype I’ve heard about Neil Gaiman. Maybe I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ll be reading more from Gaiman.

What about you? What do you think of this book (if you’ve read it)? If you’ve read lots of Gaiman’s work, which book do you recommend I try next?