book #2- Interworld

Interworld, by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reeves, was another book I was forced to read for my Science Fiction Literature class. The book was originally written as a screenplay, but it didn't fly. So it was revised and published as a book.
I was really excited to read this book, and had very high hopes. Neil Gaiman is also the author of Stardust, (yes, the one they based the movie on) and I absolutely LOVED that book. Would read it a million times if there weren't so many other fabulous books out there needing to be read!
Moving on. So, I was excited for this book. And it let me down.
15 year old Joey Harker is an average high school student living in Greenville who has trouble finding his way around his own house, let alone the town. On a field trip set by his teacher Mr. Dimas, Joey finds himself lost in the city. He later finds out that he walked right out of his own universe, and into another. He later joins "InterWorld" a military-like group consisting of all the joey harkers of all the universes, who have special abilities to jump, or walk, from universe to universe. Their job is to save "walkers" or people with the previously mentioned talent, from 2 evil groups, who kidnap them and boil them down to their "essences" aka souls, to power their space ships.
sounds like a fun and exciting story, no?
Once again, the storyline was slow moving, the characters VERY poorly written, some with little to no personality, and many of the concepts weren't explained well enough to be understood.

Sorry, Mr. Gaiman, I'll stick with Stardust. whats your deal with walking from universe to universe, anyways? ;) first the gap in the wall in stardust, now this?