The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

Hey everyone, its Sarah and I'm back with another book review. Today's review is on The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.

This book was a novel I was given to read for my writing course and at first I wasn’t looking forward to it. Normally, books I am given to read for class I do not enjoy due to the fact they aren’t the type of books I like. However, this book surprised me. I loved this book and enjoyed reading it. The characters and the plot, the scene descriptions were great and I flew through this book in two days.

The characters themselves were all unique and had interesting qualities. The main character, who is unnamed through the whole story, is an eight-year-old boy who is dragged into a world he never knew existed. I think he was a little young in this book, the thoughts and memories you read seem to belong to an older child but it might be due to the fact that the main character is reviling the memories. It was these mature thoughts that made me a little unsure of how the book would turn out. The characters reaction also didn’t feel like a child’s reaction, but I think it is due to the same reason.

Besides the mature thoughts and feelings, the story was interesting and kept me enthralled the whole way through. I couldn’t put this book down and enjoyed every moment of reading it. The twists and turns of this book created a great journey that is interesting to follow.

Overall I gave this book a four out of five stars and cannot wait to read more of Neil Gaiman’s work.

But that’s all for now.

I’ll write you soon.

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