The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is my first Neil Gaiman book, and I'm not sure I've ever read anything quite like it. It starts out as a book about a man going back to his hometown for a funeral, but doesn't follow any familiar tropes or plots after that. It becomes part memory, part fairytale (complete with a mean stepmother-ish character). But it was so incredibly well-written and the characters well-developed, that it wasn't cheesy or tired, it was spellbinding. I would never have read a book that someone described to me this way, I'd have thought it wasn't my style, but wow - was this good.
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