What a wonderful and lovely book again. Neil Gaiman really knows how to create an absorbing atmosphere and characters you grow on.

This is the story of Bod (short for Nobody) Owens who grows up on a graveyard and is adopted and raised by the ghosts living there. And the whole graveyard is caring so lovely for him. On top of that he recieves some of their ghostly traits, too, like being able to fade, see in the dark or walking through walls.

The first half of the book is more like a big build-up, in which Bod experiences some adventures, some of them funny and light hearted, some a little scary and some just odd (in an interesting way). The second half is where all the loose ends come together and peak in an awesome, big and exciting finale which contains aspects that you wouldn't have expected before. And all of this written in the beautiful lingustic style in which Neil Gaiman describes things and tells stories.