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Review title: A mess
Product review: The book starts out in prison, and immediately kills the first nice character that comes along - Shadow's wife. He is released, and heads for home. We are told of this great love they had, but there is no emotion in this character whatsoever. The next female character devours a partner in the act of sex as he worships her as a Goddess. Honestly, I gave up shortly thereafter. This book did not kindle my interest at all. I had hoped it would be spiritually uplifting, something to link Americans with the deities of their own land. Instead, it began ugly and dark, and I saw little to cause me to think it would improve. Very disappointing, considering that friends had recommended this as a must read. It's a work of fiction, of course, and it seemed to be in the genera of books that take themselves too seriously, where darkness somehow equals depth.
