The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman | "Book Review"

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Fantasy / Horror / Adult

Paperback, 181 pages

Summary:

This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...

summary from: goodreads

5 out of 5 stars

I decided to choose this short summary instead of a longer one because I think it's better going into this book not knowing much. For the same reason my review is going to be a short one, just me stating my general feelings for this beautiful book.

( There are quotation marks in the title of this post because I can't really consider this a book review, but I also don't know how else to call it. It's just simply me saying how much I loved this book. )

I genuinely loved everything about this book. The writing was simple yet captivating and magical. The story full of wonder, happiness, sadness. I couldn't put this book down. I know that I am going to read this book over and over again, always discovering something new. I find it not possible to find fitting words to describe this book and do it justice. Nor the right ones to end this post, so I am going to end it with a few beautiful quotes, which this book is full of.

Quotes:

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.” 

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.” 

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”