Head and Shoulders Above the Rest

Gaiman presents here its most extensive Roman ago - and of course it was interesting to see whether he who has written far more (excellent!) Short stories and short novels, would show its strengths also in great shape. Of course: the Sandman saga was already created more than epic from the periphery.
So this time a great novel. The genre is, as was to be expected, (Dark) Fantasy. And one thing is clear to the reader quite soon: one such innovative, imaginative, unconventional voice like Gaiman has for a long time no longer spawned the genre.
The novel is refreshingly cliché-arm. For example, while Tad Williams in Otherland only familiar pattern of the fantasy novel lined up against each other, it is possible Gaiman to break out of the narrow confines of fantasy and to design an absolutely independent counter-world, but firmly rooted in our everyday lives.
Some of the motifs and themes of the novel are deeply disturbing and deal with the reader long after it has closed the book. Although it is a book about America, it stimulates employment with European mythologies to. Gaiman is not here with a superficial level satisfied, but reaches deep into the world of myths. But even more important to him is the question of what these myths today to tell us. And what language Gaiman terms: that is beyond any doubt (if at all possible to read in englichen original!)
Conclusion: The book that Tad Williams had always liked to write. Exciting, clever ... and even a little example.