Nevertheless, determined to keep his promise, Tristan journeys back with Yvaine as his prisoner and, along the way, ends up falling for the witty and sarcastic yet endearing star.
As he ventures into this unknown land of magic and mystery, he finds out that the star is, in fact, a damsel named Yvaine, for stars are nothing but beautiful young women in that part of the world. In his quest to win her hand in marriage, he promises to bring her back a fallen star from the mystical land of Faerie that borders their own town called “Wall” (named after the wall that divides the realm of humans from that of the fairies). Tristan Thorn is a 17-year-old lad yearning for the affections of the village beauty. Stardust is one of his fantasy novels about the adventure of a young man out on a quest in the land of Faerie to secure a star for the hand of his beloved. Gaiman is reputed for his uncanny ability to construct whole new worlds, particularly in the horror, fantasy, fairy-tale, folklore and science-fiction genres. The author is regarded as one of the literary pioneers that helped accentuate the graphic-novel format. Gaiman first entered the limelight with his impressive comic book series The Sandman published by DC comics. Some of his acclaimed works include American Gods, Coraline, The Graveyard Book and Neverwhere. Watch the movie instead (which is still much more appropriate for teens than for children).Neil Gaiman is an award-winning English author particularly renowned for his characteristic gothic-fantasy literary inclinations. I do not recommend this book for anyone, but especially not children or teenagers due to the inaccurate portrayals of live and romance, explicit sex, and gruesome acts of violence. There's a particularly unpleasant scene where a witch dismembers a unicorn, and there is no "good guy wins, bad guy loses" at the end.
If you like happy endings or dislike gratuitous sex and violence, skip this book. Neither scene seems to serve any purpose besides satisfying the author's dark sense of humor, because they don't advance the plot and aren't even between the main characters. In the first few chapters, there's a pretty explicit sex scene, and later on there's another sex scene between a noble and a servant. I read the book because I just recently saw the movie (which I loved), and while I haven't enjoyed other Neil Gaiman books in the past, I thought it might be different based on the movie.
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