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4.5 This was really good and just misses the 5 star rating because honestly, there were things I was either missing or not quite sure I was getting but overall really good. I loved the parts focused on the MC Shadow, his character development was wonderful. Great writing and I was hooked immediately into the story and the character of Shadow. The more fantasy elements were what I struggled with on occasion but despite that Gaiman is really a wonderful storyteller. So rich and full of imaginative
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Dec 19, 2021
Book Concierge
rated it
it was ok
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2.5**
Gaiman is a hit-or-miss author for me. I’ve loved some of his works, others, not so much. This one clearly falls into that last category. In fact near the beginning I was tempted to DNF it entirely. Am I glad I persevered? Not exactly.
The basic premise is that America, being a fairly new land (at least in terms of population and written history), has only new gods: technology, media, etc. But all the immigrants who settled this land brought their old g ...more
2.5**
Gaiman is a hit-or-miss author for me. I’ve loved some of his works, others, not so much. This one clearly falls into that last category. In fact near the beginning I was tempted to DNF it entirely. Am I glad I persevered? Not exactly.
The basic premise is that America, being a fairly new land (at least in terms of population and written history), has only new gods: technology, media, etc. But all the immigrants who settled this land brought their old g ...more
I wasn't sure what I expected when i started American Gods, but it was on several lists so even though I don't usually read fantasy type novels I thought that I would give it a shot. I understood that it was a dark fairy tale, but would I understand it? At first, I thought I this is going to be painfully slow to read but after just 50 pages or so I was sucked into the descriptive storytelling. It was a little graphic for my taste but not so horrile that I put it down. Shadow is a flawed man whi
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So I really expected that I would like this more than I ended up liking it, which was kind of disappointing. I'd read one of Neil Gaiman's other books (Neverwhere) that I actually liked quite a bit, and I'd heard good things about this book, especially since it was being made into a TV show. But the reality was that the book dragged a bit, especially at the beginning, which is what it sounds like a lot of people think about this book. So much of it is just going back and forth without a lot of a
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Jul 06, 2017
Nancy
marked it as maybe
May 26, 2024
Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu
rated it
really liked it
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