This one also went fast, so wasn't a huge waste of time, but was rather disappointing. It was filled with in-jokes for Londoners, the writing style got tiresome relatively quickly (Gaiman's habit of heavy foreshadowing began to make me think he regards his readers as stupid), and the characters were, frankly, rather unlovable. I never really got why they were doing what they were doing, and I never was convinced I should care about why, or indeed about what they were doing at all. It's hard to maintain suspense in a story if the readers have lost interest in whether the main character lives or dies.
It did have a fun imaginary setting, though. Plus lots of points for that.
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