‘A very fine and imaginative writer’ The Sunday Times
‘Exhilarating and terrifying’ Independent
‘Urbane and sophisticated’ Time Out
‘A jaw-droppingly good, scary epic positively drenched in metaphors and symbols … As Gaiman is to literature, so Antoni Gaudi was to architecture’ Midweek
‘Neil Gaiman is a very good writer indeed’ Daily Telegraph
‘Exuberantly inventive … a postmodernist punk Faerie Queen’ Kirkus Reviews
‘Excellent … [Gaiman creates] an alternate city beneath London that is engaging, detailed and fun to explore’ Washington Post
‘Gaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him’ Stephen King
‘Neil Gaiman, a writer of rare perception and endless imagination, has long been an English treasure; and is now an American treasure as well’ William Gibson
‘There’s no one quite like Neil Gaiman. American Gods is Gaiman at the top of his game, original, engrossing, and endlessly inventive, a picaresque journey across America where the travellers are even stranger than the roadside attractions’ George R R Martin
‘Here we have poignancy, terror, nobility, magic, sacrifice, wisdom, mystery, heartbreak, and a hard-earned sense of resolution … a real emotional richness and grandeur that emerge from masterful storytelling’ Peter Straub
