Neil Gaiman’s American gods

I remember reading some of my brother’s sandman comics and really enjoying them when I was in middle school. Being so young though my short attention span prevented me from perusing the author and reading his other work. I just went on to reading some other comic book or got sucked into some sprawling in-depth story based video game which were kind of the “video game style” of the 90’s play station games. But nonetheless Neil Gaiman’s name had been imprinted in my mind along with his work.
American Gods interested me right off because I knew it dealt with mythology and I always sort of had interest in mythology, and this book fuses the characters with mythology in interesting ways. They actually are the supposed gods from the myths but they’re in very different circumstances. It’s interesting to examine how these gods act in a modern setting, I found it believable. The introduction of shadow in prison was interesting, you learn a lot about his character just by his action in prison and then he learns his wife is dead, so he sort of becomes this clean slate character not really having anything to go back to. Shadow is a great character and same with Mr. Wednesday. I thought it was interesting at the end when shadow accuses Odin of Mr. Wednesdays actions but he explains that although it was him he cant be responsible for Mr. Wednesday’s actions. I’ve read lots a lot of fantasy books like Harry Potter, or Terry Pratchet books, but this book was refreshing because it was definitely a more mature modern fantasy novel.