Stardust

upping to 3.5 stars because I enjoyed this so much more than when I last read it, I think helped by the illustrations. They really amplify and improve the text, best example of which imo is pg. 96-97 when Tristran is travelling with the Babylon candle for the first time, those were gorgeous and super evocative. I'm not a huge Neil Gaiman fan generally (his books tend to be super hit or miss for me, for the most part I think his screenwriting and comics are better than his novels, exception being the Graveyard Book which I love), but the illustrations in this edition made up for the prose things he does that annoy me, the plot is super well executed, and the imagination and whimsy is lovely.