Stardust
1997 • 248 pages

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Average rating4

15

A very short an pleasant adult fairy tale. The movie as I remember it was very faithful to the book.

The young Tristan crosses over the wall that separates our rational world to magical world of fairy. The idea is that every single story ever imagined in our world and then forgotten, inhabits this land. As such, it has no limits. A perfect analogy to our imagination.

He is looking for a fallen star to give it to his true love, so that she would wed him. He is surprised to find out that the star is actually a girl, but that don't change his goal to bring her back to his village.

At first they're at odds because Tristan doesn't take into consideration her desires, treating her like the object he expected her to be. Of course along the way things start to change.

The two other main plots revolves around a witch that wants the star's heart to make a spell that gives her youth back, and two princes that needs something the star has in her possession in order to find out who is going to be the new king.

September 20, 2014