![]() ![]() The visual descriptions of Una and Yvaine are fantastic.Gaiman writes passionate love-making scenes that are erotic yet tasteful.I love the idea of the brothers trying to out-wit and kill each other to find the topaz first as their dead ghostly brothers observe and comment on their actions.The writing style isn't nearly as dark as Gaiman's other works, but it never feels like a children's book either. The book does a great job with incorporating a variety of fairy tales and nursery rhymes while also being mysterious and tense.All of the main characters, and even many of the side characters, are interesting and complex.I very much enjoyed it, and, while researching it for this page, discovered it was originally printed as a fully illustrated book, which I now intend to read as well. I gave up trying to find an original printing, but, one day, I came across the audiobook read by the author, so I decided to read it. I saw that it was being made into a film in 2007, but I refused to watch it, not wanting to spoil the book. Thirsty and naive, Tristran enters the forbidden land of Faerie to find it, only to discover the enchanted land is quite hazardous, and the fallen star is not what it appears to be.Īfter reading a couple of Gaiman's books, I had grown very fond of his writing style and sought out this book, but couldn't find a first edition hardcover anywhere. The story follows Tristran Thorn, a teenager eager to prove his devotion to the town's most beautiful girl, who says she will give him his heart's desire if he would retrieve to her a fallen star. Every nine years, people from Faerie are allowed to enter Wall to hold a festival and sell their strange wares. The book is set in 1839 in the fictional British town of Wall which borders the magical land of Faerie. A novel form without illustrations was first published on, and, in 2007, it was adapted into a film. It was originally published as a series of four fully illustrated books released through 1997, then compiled into a single book in 1998. Stardust, later titled, Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie, is an adult fairy tale written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Charles Vess. Image Credits: Header (), Image 1 (rottentomatoes.Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Urban Fantasy Whilst Stardust has a bit of an identity crisis part fantasy, part adventure, a lot fairy tale, it is all love story. ![]() And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange – no gifts. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me anymore. ![]() “My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. After all, it’s Valentine’s Day and everyone deserves a little beauty in their lives: Sadly I will not be arriving at the ceremony on the back of a Unicorn, nor leaving for honeymoon on a Skyship, but you can’t have everything.Īnd for anyone who doubts that Stardust is a love story, I leave you with Yvaine’s declaration of love for Tristan. ‘Magical’ candles will feature in the table centrepieces and around our ‘enchanted forest’ and quotes from the book will appear throughout the day. The setting of the wedding itself will be in a temperate house, which we will turn into an enchanted forest, inspired by the wood in Faerie through which Tristan and Yvaine travel and begin to fall in love. For the wedding day, the groomsmen will all be wearing glass buttonholes and I will have a single glass flower in my bouquet, all hand made by my Maid of Honour. In Stardust, the lead character, Tristan, wears a glass flower in his lapel for protection. My fiancé and I have decided to draw inspiration from the book for our wedding in August. This is not just a love story, this is the perfect fairy tale. The bad guys are slightly ridiculous, the good guys are swashbuckling and the heroine beautiful. However, the darkness is tongue-in-cheek, and you never truly fear for your main characters as you do in some of the author’s other work. The book still contains a good dose of darkness, with the seven princes of Stormhold cold-heartedly murdering one another in a race to the throne and liberal lacings of Gaiman’s trademark black comedy. Even before Paramount waved their Hollywood fairy-godmother wand over the story for the 2007 film (giving it a Disney feel and ‘happy ever after’ ending), it was a beautiful love story, set in the magical land of Faerie. Whilst his books often feature relationships, they’re usually tales of unrequited or lost love, inferiority and vengeance and they’re usually framed amongst some pretty dark themes of death, loneliness and isolation.īut, amidst the darker fantasy of his back catalogue, lies a modern romantic gem in Stardust. When thinking of the quintessential love story, the mind doesn’t naturally turn to Neil Gaiman for inspiration. ![]()
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