When I first started this book I hit a wall (no pun intended) fairly quickly so I cheated and watched the movie. I wasn't impressed with the movie and was underwhelmed by the book.
The story of Tristan Thorn traveling beyond the gap in the wall that separates the faerie world from the village of Wall, England to fulfill his heart's desire is flat in tone slow in pace lacking in action and anticlimactic. And the women that occupy this book's pages are a pack of bitches.
The "love" story between Tristan and Yvaine felt sterile and a bit frosty, even when Yvaine does come around to Tristan it seems more like she's settling and less like she's actually in love. Then again, I guess she would have to settle because she's a star that fell from the sky and has no way to get back home. How bleak!
With a title like Stardust you would think this story would sparkle and shine and leave behind a warm glittering trail of magic instead it just lays there like a dull dirty cold lump of coal.
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