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Review title: Excellent Characterization
Product review: The characterization and over-all character development in this novel are superb, though the plot itself takes a second-hand to the wonderful people that play major, minor and cameo roles throughout the novel. Neil Gaiman looks for the soul of America in this novel, and while he doesn't quite reach it, the stories and the people and the places in the novel will stay with me as some of the most sympathetic and wonderful characters ever developed. It's unfortunate that the plot wasn't better developed, but perhaps that is in some sense the point of the novel: that America isn't about gods or technology or about fearsome battles - it is about the people who have traveled here from near and far and the relationships that we have developed.
