Fairly close to giving this 5 stars, but something didn't quite feel right. The characters, the atmosphere, the writing and the plot were all wonderful, but I think the chapters being pretty self contained (the Danse Macabre chapter was especially unrelated to the rest of the book) meant it didn't feel as complete as I'd have liked. The incompleteness of Silas's story was maybe my biggest problem, although it makes sense not to focus on it in a book about Bod growing up.