The Graveyard Book

This week I read a book which I heard recieve a lot of good reviews. The book is called The Graveyard Book it is written by Neil Gaiman and it was published in they year 2008 .It won numerous award like The Carnegie Medal or Hugo Award for best Novel.But once again I'm wondering that did it really deserve all that praise and awards.

The High and The Low
.The story is very unique.
.Simply gorgeous cover

.Some chapters were just dull and bland
.The villain's character was never fully realized
.The Honour Guard just appeared and dissappeared out of nowhere.

Quick summary
The story is about a boy named Nobody Owens whose family had been killed by an assasin ,after that two ghost found him and adopted him as their son.Each chapter tells about Bod's adventure as the story progress Bod grows up.(I personally like the chapter which Miss Lepescu babysit him and the chapter where he went to school)..............If I say more than that I will probably ruin it for you and truthfully I'm not actually sure on how to tell you.

The conclusion
I was definitely disappointed by the book,I mean everyone said it was such a great book I was thrilled when I first bought the book but when I  read it I found myself pretty dissapointed.Sure Neil Gaiman writes flawlessly for this book but what's the use when the story are so dull and bland that you simply don't care.None of the characters seemed to flesh out I never felt any character development but luckily I liked how the author presented the story.The book was supposed to be dark,adventurous and a self finding type of book but it never reached to the level I hoped.Neil Gaiman was definitely smart when he asked Chris Riddel(Probably one of the best book illustrator nowdays)to illlustrate the book for him.I know that everybody loved this book and I do respect your own opinion but I'm sorry to say that this isn't my cup of tea.

Rating:5 out of 10