A review by novaturient_bibliophile
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman

4.0

Neil is just so relatable in that he’s a writer and has all of my writerly problems and feelings, which makes for some great quotes. There were a lot of good…I don’t know, galaxy brained (?) ideas throughout the book, which made the stories really fascinating and entertaining. However, some of the stories were kind of difficult to follow or seemed a bit redundant to me. Most of them were wonderful, though. Neil is very good at creating fluent images for readers, which I love. It’s also very satisfying to understand what he’s getting at, but I’m not gonna lie, the introduction was one of my favorite parts. There were just so many brilliant quotes. 
This reminded me of Charles Bukowski and Oscar Wilde’s writing (and obviously Neil’s other works).