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A review by itzami
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
5.0
If you want characters with personality, make them gods and they’ll put everything out there!
Honestly, that was my favourite part of the book: the personalities; although the gods do like their metaphors, they also enjoy their sharp sense of humour and I think is so ‘easy’ to read thanks to their heavy lifting!
Pros:
- getting to read about all the gods you know of and geek about is like going to a high school reunion but just with the people that you like!
- the story has a good pace to it and although it throws a lot of stuff to you, it doesn’t feel that overwhelming
- the narrator: the type of narrative is just my type of thing - kinda rambling, kinda pointing out the obvious, kinda describing everything that it sees
Cons:
- Part 4 was a bit rough for me; I felt like some conclusions fell into place from nowhere and I think that that’s a common issue with large books - you want to refer to something that happened at the beginning of the story but you need to lean on the chance of the reader to remember it
Definitely gonna read more stuff from Neil Gaiman!
Honestly, that was my favourite part of the book: the personalities; although the gods do like their metaphors, they also enjoy their sharp sense of humour and I think is so ‘easy’ to read thanks to their heavy lifting!
Pros:
- getting to read about all the gods you know of and geek about is like going to a high school reunion but just with the people that you like!
- the story has a good pace to it and although it throws a lot of stuff to you, it doesn’t feel that overwhelming
- the narrator: the type of narrative is just my type of thing - kinda rambling, kinda pointing out the obvious, kinda describing everything that it sees
Cons:
- Part 4 was a bit rough for me; I felt like some conclusions fell into place from nowhere and I think that that’s a common issue with large books - you want to refer to something that happened at the beginning of the story but you need to lean on the chance of the reader to remember it
Definitely gonna read more stuff from Neil Gaiman!