Coraline

Filled with creepiness and mystery ( )

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”

From beginning to end, Coraline was wonderful. The story follows young Coraline after her family moves into a house that has been converted into flats. Coraline loves exploring and is disappointed that her mother and father are busy and often send her away to do anything else while they are working. After being told by her father to count the number of doors, windows, etc in their flat, Coraline comes across a 14th door that leads to a bricked in wall. The wall was put up when the house was converted. Though the door opens, it leads nowhere, or at least for a while.

Coraline is brave and I loved her definition of bravery to the cat with no name. Her retelling her story about what her father did and how she was now going to be brave for her parents was wonderful. I feel like every young girl has Coraline in them.

Coraline's parents though barely in this story, you can feel how much they love her and how much she loves them just by the interactions that Coraline has with them. I loved this line to Coraline about not getting everything she wants all of the time because that would be boring.

The writing was top-notch and Gaiman manages to imbue a feeling of dread even among the marvels that Coraline sees when she passes through the 14th door into the other side. I loved that my book came with drawings as well which really showcased the marvels that Coraline was seeing too. The flow really worked through the entire book and I seriously felt just like Coraline did when she realized that she was almost home free, but not quite.

The setting of the home in the real world and the other mother and father that Coraline meets was well done. I was starting to wish that Coraline was real so I could tug her along and keep her out of harm's way.

The ending was quite brilliant and I would love love love if we got to see Coraline as a grown up one day. ( )

Other Mother's prize
an ungrateful little sneak
play with your rats, dear. ( )

As expected, a novel by Neil Gaiman read by Neil Gaiman is even better than the text version. And I absolutely adore the cat. ( )

Very unpopular oppinion:
The book bored me.

I was invested until about halfway through. But then... meh...
I can‘t really explain what made me not like it. I guess it just wasn‘t for me.
The blurb on my cover says it is disturbing and scary.
Well the illustrations in the book disturbed and scared me the most. The book on itself not so much. ( )