Review: The Wolf Road

The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

"We live in a world a' men and there ain't no good come out of telling' them they monsters. Makes 'em think they ain't done nothin' wrong, that it's their nature and they can't do nothin' to change that. Calling' 'em a monster makes 'em somethin' different from the rest of us, but they ain't. They just men, flesh and bone and blood. Bad'uns, truth, but men all the same."


This book is one hella ride on survival. It's red riding hood meets hannibal in the revenant. To be honest, it's not something up in my alley but I like the thrilling sensation of it. I find it a little difficult to read from a non-literate narration but that's what makes it so real. I can't say I enjoy reading it but I'm just feeling meh. I find that I refused to go back to the story every time I paused reading and I just wanted it to end. Thus, the 3-stars rating.

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Review: American Gods

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

American Gods tells a story about a man being hired as a chauffeur and eventually got stirred up in a war between the old gods and new gods. The premise of the story is crazily interesting and superficial in a good way. Add a sprinkle of magical realism and it exploded the whole dynamic of storytelling.

I love reading dialogues with deep, gripping double-meaning and Neil Gaiman did it so well in American Gods. Maybe most of the time I ain't very sure what's going on because there are too much going on but every line I read, I cherish so dearly. The story is without a doubt hard to digest, with many alienated glossaries and many unexplained myths of Gods.

"Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other."


Reading this is a little difficult but I do every reading the conversations, especially between Shadow and Wednesday.


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