Stardust by Neil GaimanPublisher: Harper Perennial 2006
Paperback 250 pages
Romantic, sweet and highly imaginative, Stardust is that perfect blend of high fantasy, humor and charm with characters that draw you in and make you fall in love. After months of reading history and science books this was the ideal book to break my fast from fantasy fiction.
Tristan Thorn, a boy living in a rural English village that borders the land of Faerie, has lived an ordinary life, in an ordinary village until the day he decides to cross the boundary that separates his village from the magical land beyond to find a fallen star. He sets off upon this quest driven by the desire to win the hand of a beautiful girl from home, only to find a truer love in the adventure and life he finds outside his small town.
At only 250 pages, this story can be read in one very long sitting and is gripping enough that you won't want to put it down until it's last gripping chapter where all of the many side stories... the murderous brothers searching for their crown, the witch seeking to cut the heart from a star and the boy who only wants to go home to his love, are finally brought together into a sweetly satisfying ending.
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