David Mitchell is THE modern novelist that will be read forever more.

I hadn't planned on reading this since The Boneclocks was such an awful book and this novel is set in the same world. But this novel's smaller scope succeeds where the grandiose nonsense of The Boneclocks failed. This novel reads more like a detective fiction than like some epic battle between good and evil. That tight structure and small world turn out to be much more powerful than the sprawling mess of The Boneclocks.

This book was really interesting, loved the dreamlike stages. Wasn't crazy about how it ended but loved the ride.

Suggesting this work is appropriate as it relates to certain calendar coincidences is facile, shallow and inappropriate. While this is not as expansive as his previous works it is a wonderful read, slightly disconcerting and another affirmation of the talent this writer possesses.