Book Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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“Coraline” by Neil Gaiman is a terrifying Children’s book but a classic amazing for kids and adults alike!

“Coraline” follows the story of a young girl named Coraline and her parents as they live in their new home. Something is odd in their new home, more precisely, a door that unlocks on a brick wall…

That’s until the brick wall leads down to a long hallway where Coraline will find strange figures resembling to the people she knows.

Coraline, the young heroine of this novel is incredibly brave and smart. She’s a role model for kids and adults. The writing style was beautiful, lyrical at times, and accessible. There were some instances of funny moments that made this short novel even more enjoyable.

Furthermore, the terrifying vivid descriptions are bound to give kids nightmares! But have no fear, Coraline is brave and therefore incites her readers to also be brave!

I read this in one sitting out loud with my boyfriend and we both enjoyed it so much! I can’t wait to watch the movie and read other books by Neil Gaiman (as this is the first of his works that I’ve read.)

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

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

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