Coraline - Neil Gaiman

This is a very scary book about facing your fears.  The quote on the first page says something like " Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." and Coraline herself says that " When you're scared but you still do it anyway that's brave."


Coraline, who is small for her age, quiet and used to people getting her name wrong, is lured into a nightmare alternate reality and has to fight her parents and the other children she meets along the way.


This is supposed to be a children's book but really is scary in places, although the author reckons adults see it as horror and children as adventure.  It is really well written and flies by in no time.  Then again I love everything Neil Gaiman writes.


8/10