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Stardust by Neil Gaiman is a book that I wanted for my birthday last year, but instead of getting it I got a different book that also is called Stardust.

Anyway I got the paperback version of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and it was published in 2007 by Headline Review which is a imprint of Headline Publishing Group. And the book’s ISBN is 978-0-7553-3751-4.

I enjoyed this book, and think that I’ll read it again and again as I like how Neil wrote it. He also explains in this book that he started writing it and then stopped: but about a year or so later he watched a star fall from the sky and this gave him the main objective for the story he was trying to write.

As the main character in the story is Tristan Thorn, and as he was walking Victoria Forester home he was promising her everything he could think of for a kiss and then shortly after they saw a star fall from the sky. Then as Tristan thought: that Victoria was the most beautiful woman in the world that he wanted to marry he rashly told her that if he retrieved that star that they saw fall, and came back with it to show her  will she agree to give him what he desired?

She agreed, and this meant that Tristan had to go to the land of Faerie to find the fallen star. But The Wall is guarded, and they let no one from the town go through accept every nine years (as this is when the people of Faerie hold their markets). But Tristan doesn’t realise at the time that he is in fact half Faerie and because his father whose name is Dunstan told the two guards that the rumours about his son are true they let Tristan go through the gap in The Wall which led to the land of Faerie.