I didn't enjoy this as much as Anansi Boys, American Gods, or Neverwhere, but it's still beautifully written and has a number of wonderful, stand out quotes in it. It has a certain fable-like quality to it which, though while it is probably exactly the tone it was meant to have and which suits the matter of fact way the narrator accepted what was going on around him as a seven year old, also leaves the characters sketched rather lightly and made it hard for me to connect with them. Sometimes I hoped that the action was going to shift back to the present and that a true adult perspective (as opposed to an adult remembering childhood) would help, but after a few chapters and in such a short book it became evident that wasn't going to happen.
I still expect I'll be rereading this in a few years.
Overall: B