I do not recommend this book for anyone, but especially not children or teenagers due to the inaccurate portrayals of live and romance, explicit sex, and gruesome acts of violence. There's a particularly unpleasant scene where a witch dismembers a unicorn, and there is no "good guy wins, bad guy loses" at the end. If you like happy endings or dislike gratuitous sex and violence, skip this book. Neither scene seems to serve any purpose besides satisfying the author's dark sense of humor, because they don't advance the plot and aren't even between the main characters. In the first few chapters, there's a pretty explicit sex scene, and later on there's another sex scene between a noble and a servant. I read the book because I just recently saw the movie (which I loved), and while I haven't enjoyed other Neil Gaiman books in the past, I thought it might be different based on the movie.
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