I really liked this, but how much credit should Gaiman really get? Gaiman's retellings are almost "just" translations. So kudos for doing a good job of presenting the myths, and doing a fresh retelling from the original sources, but the blurb rubs me the wrong way when it goes "Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page". They're not Gaiman's gods, and the liveliness on the page owes as much to the original sources as to Gaiman.