Horizon Road

Intended to be for young adults when it was written, ‘Coraline’ fell to the same fate as Harry Potter and ended up being enjoyed by not-so-young adults as much as its intended audience.

The story is of a brave little girl left on her own to save her parents, and herself, from an evil, lonely, button-eyed spirit that lives in a different world behind a door that has been bricked off in her new home. With a little help from her oddball neighbors that share the large boarding house, she is able to match wits with the spirit in such a way that Gaiman actually makes believable.

The novella is a quick read and once you start, you want to make sure you have time to finish because you won’t want to put it down as you follow Coraline on her quest until it is done. And even when you think it IS done, you discover there is still a little more.

Even though the book was intended for the young, young and old alike will thoroughly enjoy a few days in the life of this clever, little self-proclaimed explorer, Coraline, not Caroline, as she points out more than a few times, but Coraline.

I give it a 4.2 on a 5.0 scale. A recommended read.