Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible.
He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same…
Goodreads Rating: 4.10 with over 415,000 ratings
Genre listing: Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Fantasy, Supernatural
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Book Challenge: Pop Sugar Challenge, book 9/40 A book about a road trip
Review:
Edited 12/1/2016
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is one of the books I picked up with my Readers Legacy credits. I was pretty excited to dive into it once I got it. At 500 some pages, it took me for what felt like forever to read.
Overall, I enjoyed the book. I'm not in love with it, and I found that I had no trouble putting it down for a few days and then picking it back up. However, I could only read a little bit at a time. Part of this was due to time constraints, but a lot of it was because after about 20-30 pages it'd make me sleepy. It's not necessarily dull, but it has a lot of information that takes a lot of effort to process. It's constantly flipping from Shadow's story to random short stories about the Gods.
There wasn't any character that I was absolutely in love with in this book. I found Shadow to be pretty dull and lacked personality. I can't say why, but Laura got on my nerves. Every time she said "puppy" I assumed she was saying it in a god-awful whiny and nasally voice.
I put this as my book about a road trip, because when you get down to it, that's what it is. Shadow and Wednesday travel in whatever car they can find to rally the Gods. I thought this was interesting, and I liked to read about the places they would go and the Gods they would meet. This was probably my favorite part of the book and what kept me reading it.
I felt like the "war" was anti-climatic. I won't go into much detail about it, but the ending didn't wow me. I felt like the relationship between Wednesday and Shadow was predictable. Pretty sure I had it pegged in the first half of the book. I will say, I liked that the book came full circle. Everything had an ending and was nicely packaged for the book to finish.
Overall, I enjoyed it. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. The husband will be probably happy I'm finished with it because he seems to want to read it.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is one of the books I picked up with my Readers Legacy credits. I was pretty excited to dive into it once I got it. At 500 some pages, it took me for what felt like forever to read.
Overall, I enjoyed the book. I'm not in love with it, and I found that I had no trouble putting it down for a few days and then picking it back up. However, I could only read a little bit at a time. Part of this was due to time constraints, but a lot of it was because after about 20-30 pages it'd make me sleepy. It's not necessarily dull, but it has a lot of information that takes a lot of effort to process. It's constantly flipping from Shadow's story to random short stories about the Gods.
There wasn't any character that I was absolutely in love with in this book. I found Shadow to be pretty dull and lacked personality. I can't say why, but Laura got on my nerves. Every time she said "puppy" I assumed she was saying it in a god-awful whiny and nasally voice.
I put this as my book about a road trip, because when you get down to it, that's what it is. Shadow and Wednesday travel in whatever car they can find to rally the Gods. I thought this was interesting, and I liked to read about the places they would go and the Gods they would meet. This was probably my favorite part of the book and what kept me reading it.
I felt like the "war" was anti-climatic. I won't go into much detail about it, but the ending didn't wow me. I felt like the relationship between Wednesday and Shadow was predictable. Pretty sure I had it pegged in the first half of the book. I will say, I liked that the book came full circle. Everything had an ending and was nicely packaged for the book to finish.
Overall, I enjoyed it. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. The husband will be probably happy I'm finished with it because he seems to want to read it.
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