Review (First Impressions) 1-3

A bit late on this one but, I got the book and I've sunk in its beginning chapters quite quickly I'm afraid. The thing with good books, or at least books I take in interest in, is that once I'm in it, I'm in it until I'm done. It's a love hate sort of relationship, I want to taste the intricate delicacies of the meal, savor the thoughts and creativeness that went into its preparation, but I'm a fat kid at heart, and fat kid want cake. So I expect I'll be done with this book in a matter of days, seeing how I'm already a third of the way through it and its been in my possession for a day.
     The idea of the book itself is what hooked me in the first place, the story of a boy growing up in a graveyard and raised by ghosts...very nice. What I didn't expect though, was the morbidness of it, the very real images that are portrayed right off the bat. A man sneaking in a house in the cold of night with blood pooling on the hardwood floor and a knife in his hand stained already. All that remains is a child, a child that cannot be found by man but, by ghosts. Ghosts that decide whether or not the boy should live, and if he should life with them...In a graveyard.
    What I'm already loving about this book is that it allows me to picture everything vividly but while having restraints by the words on the page, almost like a perfect tango between the reader and the author's words. The characters (ghosts) are explained very well, by telling me parts and pieces of how this idea of ghosts raising a living child would work but, still allowing me to piece it together myself. The boy is named Nobody, or what you come to conclude in the next chapter, Bod for short. A man named Silas is his mentor, guardian, and his teacher. He is mysterious fellow that minds his own business and doesn't abide by the same rules that the residents of the graveyard have. You come to find that he was also "given the freedom of the graveyard" and that is why he is not bound by rules of other ghosts. Perhaps I'm rambling and not doing any of this correctly but, what I can say is that I love this book already and can't wait to finish it (sort of) in a couple days. Cheers.