Well, I made it through the book...but feel like I need to roll my eyes in disinfectant.
Shadow is a big, dumb guy. He's biding his time in jail, keeping his head down, until he can return to his wife and job when his time is up. But it doesn't quite work out like that. His wife dies, along with his former boss. Then he meets Mr. Wednesday, a well-dressed and strangely connected man that offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard and errand boy. With no other options, Shadow accepts. But Wednesday has plans for his new lackey. Big plans.
It was an interesting enough story so I kept on reading, despite the over-peppering with f-bombs. Getting through an entire page without foul language seemed like a task too big for Mr. Gaiman. But since I love mythology, I turned every swear-smeared page. It was an interesting concept, how the gods of foreign lands were reincarnated in American by true believers that journeyed to the new land only to be abandoned for new gods in the form of technology and media. I had the big twist figured out well before but the missing kids? Got that one the same time Shadow did and it ruined my whole night.
Shadow is a big, dumb guy. He's biding his time in jail, keeping his head down, until he can return to his wife and job when his time is up. But it doesn't quite work out like that. His wife dies, along with his former boss. Then he meets Mr. Wednesday, a well-dressed and strangely connected man that offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard and errand boy. With no other options, Shadow accepts. But Wednesday has plans for his new lackey. Big plans.
It was an interesting enough story so I kept on reading, despite the over-peppering with f-bombs. Getting through an entire page without foul language seemed like a task too big for Mr. Gaiman. But since I love mythology, I turned every swear-smeared page. It was an interesting concept, how the gods of foreign lands were reincarnated in American by true believers that journeyed to the new land only to be abandoned for new gods in the form of technology and media. I had the big twist figured out well before but the missing kids? Got that one the same time Shadow did and it ruined my whole night.
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