A fascinating story. It appealed to the part of me still charmed by magic. I enjoyed the characters and the settings, reading the better part of it while sitting on my ass in a disused hospital room with other background actors like me, dressed as patients, doctors, nurses, orderlies, a few lawyers, and even as U.S. Secret Service agents protecting a mythical dream-sequence TV wannabe President. It occurs to me that I participate in magic on a regular basis myself, so I shouldn't be too hard on written stories that emply magic as a plot device, although often a rather convenient one.
The story transported me to another world, taking me away from this one, which is what I count on fiction to do, and it did so very admirably. The writing is smooth and clean and the story is crafted to move along quickly. Some things made me laugh, and some made me smile. I could see this world quite clearly, and almost smell it. Sucked me right in. Thank you Mr. Gaiman.
The story transported me to another world, taking me away from this one, which is what I count on fiction to do, and it did so very admirably. The writing is smooth and clean and the story is crafted to move along quickly. Some things made me laugh, and some made me smile. I could see this world quite clearly, and almost smell it. Sucked me right in. Thank you Mr. Gaiman.
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