Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book, vol. 2

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 8, 2015

Review

I didn't realize that this was volume 2 until I started reading it and saw that it started with chapter 6. I have read the novel, The Graveyard Book, but not for a while, so it was a little tricky walking into the middle of the book and figuring out what was happening. The first thing that I noticed about the book was that each of the three chapters are drawn in a different style (ch. 6:David Lefuente, ch. 7:Scott Hampton, and ch. 8: P. Craig Russell, Kevin Nowlan & Galen Showman). The adaptor of the work is Russell who also adapted Coraline and Sandman, so he is quite familiar with the feel of Gaiman's work. That is evident in the illustrations of this book. The story stays true to the book and the illustrations are high quality and as realistic as possible for a fantasy novel about ghosts and a major character who is a vampire. It was nice to see the three different depictions of Silas and would be an interesting study for a student who loves graphic novels to read the two volume set and compare the illustrations. If you had interest in the novel, and you have a decent graphic novel collection, this would be a fine addition, BOTH volumes.

Overall Book Score: very good