“This book was my second venture into Neil Gaiman's work, with his book "Neverwhere" being the first. I had no prior knowledge to reading this book, which is apparently a follow up to his "American Gods". Anansi Boys doesn't make any need-to-know references to American Gods to follow what is going on in the book.
The book starts very slow and was made even slower to me because I did not care for the characters in the book very much. It makes sense toward the end why they are the way they are, but I still didn't like them. It's not that what was going on wasn't interesting either, the subject matter was quite refreshing, but you can't really find anything that interesting if you don't care whether the character lives or dies. The way the book handled a certain aspect of the story treaded a little too harshly on my chivalrous side which pushed me away from it as well. ”
TheBudman wrote this review Thursday, January 3 2008.
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