The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

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Title: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Author: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Rating: 2.5/5
# pages: 255
Date read: October, 2019

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.


I rounded up my rating on Goodreads because it really is expertly written, even if the book itself wasn't right for me.

A friend of mine described it as being similar to "Stranger Things" in style, and I think she was spot on in that description. And just like with "Stranger Things" I was fascinated and repelled at the same time.

I'm glad to have read it, but don't really see myself rereading it.