Read for Kid Book Club: Book turned into a Movie.

I had previously watched the movie a handful of times, but I hadn't gotten around to reading it. This was a good opportunity to do so.

I actually ended up reading the audiobook. While I liked the narrator alright, I was a little disappointed that they didn't make Coraline sound much like a little girl (the narrator is a masc-presenting Englishman). It normally wouldn't have bothered me, but it didn't seem like there was much of a cadence different between speech and description, so it was sometimes hard to follow.

I was always disturbed a bit by this story and never knew why kids my age in middle school loved it. I'm just not one for scary, nightmarish books. But I did like the pacing of the story, and I liked the originality of it. The scary parts were done well in a slow-burn haunting way, that while it's not my cup of tea, I can still appreciate the execution.