Anansi Boys

I really enjoy reading Gaiman's prose and I think he excels at combining multiple genre's till you have a book that is really hard to categorize as it checks so many different boxes. This novel appeals to me on that level and I had a good time with the overall plot/characters. If I had to sum it up I would used the word “solid”. Nothing blew me away and I'd rate it a slightly lower than American Gods , (3.5 compared to 4) but a solid novel that was interesting despite me not being very emotionally invested in the characters.

As far as the comedy goes, which this book is marketed heavily as being humorous, Gaiman just doesn't do it for me. Not only do I tend to not find him funny, but often times it's lost on me that he's even attempting to be funny. So it's not that the joke doesn't land (although sometimes this is true), it's that I often don't see the joke to begin with. I don't really hold that against Gaiman though because that's not a reflection on his writing in any way, it's just something that I ironically find amusing.