This is something I can’t make my mind upon, so help me on it, ok? If you haven’t read Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is it a good or a bad thing? When I tell you it’s one of my favorite books ever you might hurry to support the first opinion but you would be wrong, there is no expiration date on stories. I envy you fellow reader because you have the unique opportunity to live from the beginning the experience of getting lost in a Gaiman story, and if this article helps even one of you do that, well I’ll be a happier man!
Somewhere in the Middle Ages or shortly later there is a small village called Wall, in that countryside place there is, what a surprise, a wall no man is allowed to pass. That is the border between our world and Fairy, a land of magical creatures and wonders, and once every year there is a festival on the other side of it where humans and fairies sell, buy and trade possessions and experiences. This year young Tristran will attend the festival and furthermore, in an attempt to gain his only love’s hand he will promise to bring her a falling star they see together that dark night, so he will embark by himself in a journey that will put him in grave dangers and reveal him things about himself and the rest of the world he would never find out otherwise.
Neil Gaiman and artist Charles Vess (twice winner of the Eisner award) bring to us a fantastic tale about true and false love, magic and wonders, quests and pursuits. It is nothing like what you’ve read before, it can be read manically in one night, it is beautiful, addictive, mind blowing story telling, I loved every page of it!
