Coraline - Neil Gaiman

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Title: Coraline (graphic novel)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 186
Date read: April, 2015

When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth.

But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and all the tools she can find if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.


Disclaimer: I've never read the original, but thought the graphic-novel version would be perfect for the read-a-thon. The drawings were gorgeous, but as usual I feel like I can take or leave Neil Gaiman as a story-teller... although that's perhaps not an entirely fair assessment, considering the medium, which did mean that it was at best a very superficial version of the story.