I feel it’s a shame to rate American Gods so low, but I just didn’t get it. I listened to the audiobook rather than reading the physical paperback and this may have played a part in it. It’s harder to keep up with an audiobook when you’re dipping in and out here or there. 

I genuinely feel like I missed the point. The plot. My experience  is just a garble of things that happened that barely seem to link. American gods is a classic too long with too little happening, and what is happening doesn’t really make much sense or make me care so it’s just washes over me without anything hooking me, type story. 

Not only did Gaiman let me down with the plot, but his characters didn’t charm either. Shadow, the main human character is incredibly two dimensional, that it’s hard to relate to him. All you really know is that he’s a good guy really, and he’s big. Did I mention he’s big? It’s about his only trait. The gods on the other hand as so interchangeable due to their lack of real distinguishing features that they may as well have been one god. Wednesday is the only exception since he is the main god we focus on, and the one joining Shadow in his.. adventure. 

Overall I do think I *get* what Gaiman was aiming for. I do. I just think that his intend doesn’t match the final output and what we have is a meandering tale about a boring, big man getting involved with lacklustre gods and stuff happening, but then not really happening in the end. 

I might revisit in paperback form one day and change my mind, but for now it is not for me.