This book is fantastic! I first became interested in Bod, short for Nobody, when I read his short story in a collection of stories by Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things. While I wasn't exactly dying to read more, I was intrigued enough to order a copy of the newly published expanded book from the library. This was an excellent choice. I am a huge fan of Mr. Gaiman's books. His sense of the absurd and fantastic really meshes well with my life-view. A book about a boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard, watched over by a guardian vampire and substitute-guardian werewolf is just one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time! Qualifier: the inclusion of a mummy to the team of guardians was a little too much. You have to draw the line somewhere.
I would definitely recommend this book to any Neil Gaiman fans and would probably recommend it to someone unfamiliar with his work. The flow of the storyline is a little choppy, most likely because of its origins as a couple of short stories. All in all, I consider the two hours I spent reading this book to have been time well-spent! Sure, I could have been trying to solve world hunger, but reading about how to defeat a ghoul will probably prove useful at some point in my life, right?
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