The Graveyard Book

Short Review: I have now read all of Gaiman's full length books. This is a middle grade book, written older than Coraline, but not really an adult book. It is a coming of age novel, if you happen to be a live boy that has grown up in a graveyard with ghosts for parents and a vampire (?) as a guardian. Nobody Owens (he is called Bod for short) learns all kinds of things normal children don't because he has friends that grew up over the past couple hundred years. And there are some things in the graveyard that are even older (and darker). Bod is in the graveyard because it family was killed when he was a baby and Bod escaped. And the killer is still out there, and still wants him dead. I hedged on making this a full 5 star book because it sags in a few places. But it is very close.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-graveyard-book/