I admit it. The blurb by Neil Gaiman amused me enough to buy this book. I notice in retrospect that he says nothing about the actual story.Unfortunately, you spend most of this book doubting the veracity of any plot related information you receive. Or, in fact, any world related information you receive. Everybody is an unreliable narrator except, presumably, the two PoV characters. It's annoying in the same way that the conversation with the first year philosophy student is after he's discovered the idea that all evidence comes through your senses, which may be deceived. It doesn't help that nobody keeps the same name for more than two pages.I spent .... probably the middle half of the book waiting to see if it got bad enough that I could justify putting it down. And then, the last quarter of the book, I did actually want to find out what happened so I finished it. So... that's a good thing, I guess.