If you've read A Graveyard Book and Coraline this is pretty much in the same vein as those, and I mean that as a compliment because they're all great. They all have kind of the same style but they're also all unique books so it's not like he's just writing the same story over and over again. I really like how he manages to take huge mythic ideas and combine with like very specific everyday details that really makes the story believable no matter how 'out there' it gets.