I really liked this book, it was great. The enviroment just creepy enough, everything gruesome enough, it was like walking through a game. Great villains, a few good twists.... But then the ending. The solution to all problems was just not to my taste, and the setup for a sequel was just too much of a presentation on a platter. Or well, it was obvious that it was an open door, it just rubbed me the wrong way when they were pointing at the open door.

Just wow, a book that had a movie making that is exactly the same. It's a great story, Love that the grandpa act was part of it all along.

Don't mind me, just being very biased here loving almost anything Gaiman makes

You know a book is good if it can take something seemingly mundane and make it thrilling. I might just consider learning chess (I won't, but you know)

Only Stephen King can write a story about a boy finding a new world, and let the first third of the book not be about that at all. I mean harry is out of his cupboard in a few chapters, as do the children find the wardrobe to Narnia soon, but no.

He starts the story about trauma and alcoholism, and having met those horrors up close he hit some nails full on the head. So crying within the first few chapters. I started low, but in the end it was wonderfully put together.

When I was halfway I already had that vibe of there isn't enough book left to fix all these problems! And I was right. I know this happens when a book is to big and they split the movie in two, but now it is like the other way round. So now I need to read part two straight away because I am unsatisfied with the current state.

Het concept voor dit boek is heerlijk en komt prachtig samen aan het eind. De opsplitsing in drie stukken heeft wat structuur, het eerste deel wekt een hoop vragen op een de antwoorden komen deels in het tweede stuk. De overeenkomsten, het verhaal dat zich steeds lijkt te herhalen. En dat einde waarin je meteen het gevoel krijgt dat het nog niet over is. Bert.

Always good, a bit... Sexuely vividly described at times

at times it was brilliant, some parts got really boring. In the beginning I liked the mix of the 3 narratives, but at some point we seem to lose some of those as the focus goes hard on the old storyline. And the ending was a bit anticlimactic.