My least favourite Gaiman novel thus far. It does have things that I enjoy - primarily Daisy the cop and Rosie's awful-but-amusing mother. I also liked Fat Charlie, albeit mildly, and how he grew and changed over the course of the book. As well, Gaiman's tone is consistently entertaining. I've never found him as funny as Pratchett, but there's still a dry sense of the ridiculous in here and I always like that. But I can't get over the fact that Spider is a rapist and is never called on it - hell, he ends up in a relationship with his victim because she loves him anyway, despite the fact that he fucked her while pretending to be his twin brother, the man she was actually engaged to. There's never any real consequence for this, it's treated more as a mild bit of naughtiness, and it kind of makes me want to gag.