It's really a 4.5 - because while this collection raises the intellectual bar yet again on the series, it's also a collection of short stories that feel somewhat ethereal. I'm pretty sure it's all a part of Mr. Gaiman's master plan so I'm not too bothered by it. It's the way I now reconsider storytelling and truth and history that is the real mark of this particular installment of the series. You can read these as campfire stories, to be told and retold and put away again... or you can let them spark an interior intellectual debate. Either way, it's well worth your time.More about it, as usual, over at RB: http://wp.me/pGVzJ-zP
