I made a mistake with this book, I saw it was being made into a TV series and thought I'd read the book before the show airs, my mistake was reading this so soon after reading [b:Neverwhere|14497|Neverwhere|Neil Gaiman|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348747943s/14497.jpg|16534]. Neverwhere was stunning and American Gods comes across as a weak rambling sort of story. This book is Neil Gaiman's "on the road" book, it was an interesting writing style, driving and describing all the places on the route, unfortunately there were some bits that bugged me.

At the end of some of the chapters there were extra stories about some random Gods and how they ended up in America, these bits were so long, almost a book in their own right, they weren't that interesting and by the time I'd made it to the end I had forgotten what had been happening in the main story.

One of the strongest things about Neverwhere was how vivid the descriptions of the places where, within a few sentences you could easily picture the place. In American Gods everything felt bland, I wasn't even sure it was set in America. Maybe it was the fact the settings were right in front of Gaiman and not in his head but something went wrong.

The characters were up to his normal standard and so was the plot including a very well thought out mystery. I have enjoyed the story, just ruined a bit by the issues I had with it. Looking forward to the TV series, I think that will be really good.