Murder by Death

My first Neil Gaiman book; I bought it on impulse when I was on holiday back in June and saved it for Halloween week.

I totally get what the fuss is about concerning Mr. Gaiman's writing.  The book might as well have been a movie playing in my head: every scene, every setting was as if he'd drawn it in full colour for me right into my head.

Let me start with: the story was very good and I really, really liked Silas.  I was drawn into this story from the first page.  But I will also admit Bod just didn't make me feel much for him.  While Silas managed to convey so much of the complexities of his existence in just the few words he used, and Mrs. Owens made her deep affection for Bod obvious in the very few moments she had, and even Liza felt like a fully fleshed out character after her first scene, Bod always felt 2 dimensional.  Perhaps he was meant to, as a reflection of what was lacking in his life in the graveyard, but I felt like most of what he faced, he faced without much emotional range.  

I also deducted a little chunk of star because I stumbled on another example of an author using "neither/or" instead of "neither/nor".  Why this is suddenly jumping out at me in the books I read, I can't begin to guess, but given both instances were in books by such massively respected authors, it leaves me feeling a bit bummed out.  If Rowling and Gaiman can't get editors to catch this kind of thing, what author can?