After being a bit disappointed by The Ocean at the End of the Lane (the first Gaiman book I've cracked in a good long while), I was worried about delving into this one, but that worry was for naught. Everything about this book is what I love about Gaiman's storytelling. It's fun, funny, scary, tense and always finding little nooks and crannies in everyday life to sneak in a bit of fantasy. The structure of each chapter as a vignette was both nostalgic and refreshing, reminding me both of comic book storytelling (which was how I first came to Gaiman's writing) but also older novels like Little Women and Anne of Green Gables that track the growth of their main characters through their wacky adventures.

I don't tend to re-read things much these days, but this very much feels like something I may come back to in the future as it was a very quick read but full of joy and entertainment.