Title: Stardust
Author: Neil Gaiman
Series: N/A
Pages: 224
Release Date: September 19th 2005
Format: Paperback
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Synopsis: Stardust is an utterly charming fairy tale in the tradition of The Princess Bride and The Neverending Story. Neil Gaiman, creator of the darkly elegant Sandman comics and author of The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, tells the story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. One fateful night, Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town (called, appropriately, Wall) and the Faerie realm. No one ever ventures beyond the Wall except to attend an enchanted flea market that is held every nine years (and during which, unbeknownst to him, Tristran was conceived). But Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and thus win the hand of his love.
My Review: I found this one in my local library and I had to read it as I enjoyed the movie.
I might be 32 but love fairy tales and like to read them whenever I get the chance, this book only took me a few hours to read as I did not want to put it down where normally a book this size would take me 2 days to read.
The story is an easy read but the characters and everything else have so much depth to them that you get to escape into a new world.
The story is about a boy Tristran, a witch and some brothers in search of a fallen star all for different reasons. Tristran wants the star to give to Victoria a girl he likes so she will marry him, the witch wants it for herself and her sisters so they can become young again and the brothers are after the star because she has an amulet that their father told them one of them needed to become the next King.
Most of the story takes place in the Village of Faerie just beyond the town of Wall, the residents of Wall only ever cross into Faerie once every few years for the fair and Tristran’s father went when he was a young man and met a nice girl and this resulted in Tristran.
Tristran ends up finding the star and realises that it is actually a human girl named Yvaine who does not want anything to do with Tristran she even calls him an idiot.
Will Tristran get Victoria the star? Will the Witch find her and kill her or will one of the brothers find her and get the amulet back so he can become king?
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