Very readable, I devoured the entire book in about 2 hours. Of course, it's aimed at younger readers and as such is a pretty fast read, and doesn't pack as much of a punch as Gaiman's adult stuff. It's not as dark as Coraline despite what you'd think would be a much darker setting (a graveyard), and perhaps that's part of what makes it an interesting book.

Gaiman starts the story with a murder and sets the entire book in a graveyard surrounded by corpses, and somehow makes it feel like a comforting environment; almost exactly the opposite of Coraline, where he takes a warm, friendly family household environment and makes it seem incredibly creepy and scary. It's an unusual perspective and a refreshing way of looking at things, and I just wished the book had been longer, and written for adults so it could have had the detail and depth of something like American Gods.