My reaction to the first Dirk Gently novel was "Huh? Wha? But? How? Well at least it was funny." My attitudes are much the same here, albeit maybe to a lesser degree, not counting the usual hilarity that comes with any Adams' venture. This book was much more coherently plotted than the last one, which I remember being a very complicated jumble of plotlines rather than an interconnected narrative. At times, this book is much the same, though probably not until the last third. I thought I was getting a good sense of where everything was meeting up, but either certain paths had no clear ending, or were just placed there just for the chaos of it all. The latter I can appreciate, but I still want to be able to somewhat understand a book when I read it. 

I love Dirk's lovable assholery. Makes it even funnier when he encounters any sort of bad luck or whap to the nose.

Also, yes, I always love the inclusion of Norse Mythology in anything but....no Loki? We have here a series that thrives on the "everything is connected" idea, but no trickster to throw that belief in the bin? Could have served as an interesting antagonist? But hey, that's just me being Loki obsessed again after imbibing too much Loki content.