Date Of Review: October 13, 2023
Review Left On GoodReads: Yes https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5817384685
Coraline
Author: Neil Gaiman
Narrated By: Neil Gaiman
Started: October 5, 2023
Finished: October 5, 2023
Genre: horror
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes
Part Of A Series: Yes
Type Of Book: audiobook
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17061.Coraline
Review:
I've wanted to read this book since I saw the movie when it was in theaters. I finally got around to it many years later.
I love when the authors themselves read for the recording of their audio book. It brings something more to the story. Like a different sort of immersion and you can feel like you are there listening right in the same room.
It seems some folks where not ok with the creepiness. I love the creepiness. And, it has a cat. Even Neil Gaiman realizes cats are the smart ones. I would love to know more about the Other Mothers life previous to her taking children and their souls. And how she obtained the power to make the worlds she does. Maybe one day we will find out as well as what happens to the key.
Goodreads Description:
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it's different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.