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Book Review of American Gods

American Gods
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Helpful Score: 1


My first Neil Gaiman book. I was taken in the premise of an epic battle between the "old gods" of mythology and the "new gods" of the present age...SPOILERS.....it really doesn't deliver on the premise...the battle is largely a smoke screen for other activities. The plot wanders in a typical road trip style fashion, the main hero is pretty much only an observer and takes no direct action just wandering from place to place. Not much action....except for a lot of lurid sex scenes...and of the epic war that really never takes place.