I recently picked up Stardust after falling in love with other Neil Gaiman works, and this novel was just as magical. The setting and pace of the book make me think of christmas, especially those cold winter days when you're tucked up inside with a hot chocolate - so it's a definite re-read for next winter.

In Stardust we follow Tristan Thorn, who lives in a village called Wall which is where we are shown that this is the 'normal' world, and anywhere outside of Wall is the world of Faerie - these two worlds do not meet except from once every few years.

We see Tristan make a promise of finding a 'falling star' to the girl whom he believes is his one true love. Normally people are not allowed to venture outside of Wall until that one fateful day every few years, however Tristan is an exception. And he embarks on his adventure to finding this falling star, meeting various people (and creatures) on his journey and finding out he has a little Faerie inside of him afterall...

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and once again fell in love with Gaiman's magical words, and when people ask me which Gaiman book to start with I will now say this one. I was also pleasantly surprised as to how different this was from the movie - I know I probably shouldn't have watched the movie first. However after reading the book I have now realised that the film did not do it justice at all, the book had this magical feeling throughout and I felt as though you got a much better understanding of Tristan especially.

I found that the underlining love story within the book made it enchanting and gripping, especially as I am not the biggest fan of romance novels. The only thing I can say is if you don't like sex in books, this does have a few explicit sex scenes right at the beginning of the books.

As I said before if you want to fall in-love with Gaiman's wonderfully hypnotic writing, then start with Stardust as it's an easy and wonderful read and will guide you into Gaiman's novels easily.