GabeXorn Male, 25. Melbourne, Australia

The blurb on the back of the book is misleading. Although I found the story to be interesting and suspenseful, it is not about corruption and bad practices or even danger in the air industry (which comes off very well in the story) but about problems in the media (in that they take an incident and completely reinterpret, re-framing it using little more than rumour and embellished fact).

If you liked American Gods, you will like Anansi Boys for entirely different reasons. While these two Neil Gaiman novels are set in the same universe with the gods of old and ancient cultures living among normal, everyday people, but that is where the similarities end. While American Gods is a serious, dark story of a man's strange journey though America, Anansi Boys is lighter and more humorous set a few years later.

Anansi Boys can be read as a stand alone novel, the sole reference to the events of American Gods being in the first couple of chapters. Much shorter and lighter in tone than its predecessor, Anansi Boys will make you laugh with the crazy antics of the many memorable characters.