Stardust
by Neil Gaiman
Rating - *****(5 stars)
Book Length - 368 pages
Genre - Fantasy
I was only a few pages into Stardust when I knew that I was going to fall in love with this book. The writing and plot was so whimsical. It walked the world between our reality and a fairy world excellently.
Stardust starts in a city called Wall. How excellent is it that the city is named after a wall that borders the human and fairy world. On the human side of the wall the humans are as ordinary as possible despite they are very aware that the fairy world exists. It is their duty to guard against anyone entering it except for every nine years when their is a fair.
The story follows two generations of men. The first falls in love with a fairy at the fair. The second is their offspring. At the age of 17 he is in love with an ordinary human girl. He heads into the fairy world to find a star. When he finds her she is a beautiful young women with a fist attitude.
The book is a well written fairy tale for the adult reader. There is a mild sexual scene and a lot of talk of murder and eating hearts. It is classic fairy tale stuff. I can't wait to pick up more of Neil Gaiman's books.
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