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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

Neil Gaiman

Start date: August 22, 2012

Finish date: August 31, 2012

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Mar 19, 2016 Rachel N. rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2016, england, london, humor, pbt-fiction-100, adventure, fantasy, london-below, angel, assassins

Richard Mayhew stops one day to help a young woman lying injured on a London street. After getting her aid and dealing with some odd people the next day Richard finds that no one in his daily life recognizes him and he has lost his job and apartment. to figure out what is going on Richard must enter the world of London Below. This book was wonderfully inventive. I got sucked into the world Gaiman created. I didn't want the book to end and still want to know what happens next. ...more

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Oct 09, 2008 Jessica rated it liked it

This is the first novel by Neil Gaiman that I have read. I thought the idea of the story - that of an alternate London underneath - was very original and interesting. I found the book really fun and interesting up until the bit where they started wandering around. It just didn't seem that after that the book really went anywhere. I had a hard time picturing what was going on, and some of the characters seemed poorly developed.

On the other hand, the book had a healthy dose of humor, which is alwa ...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Cora rated it really liked it

Shelves: lost-in-fire, fantasy, urban-fantasy, mystery, paranormal, horror, europe, angels, london, england

Richard Mayhew lives a normal life with a normal job and a fiance until one day he helps a girl he finds bleeding in the street. Another world is opened up to him, one full of the people who fall through the cracks. He begins a quest to help the girl find out who killed her family and to try to find his way back to his old life.

I really enjoyed Neverwhere. The world Gaiman has imagined is compelling because it is both a facinating fantasy world and a commentary on our world where the homeless of ...more

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Dec 13, 2013 Rebekah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-fantasy, genre-young-adult, genre-contemporary, genre-adventure, genre-science-fiction, genre-adult, rating-4, genre-horror, genre-science-fiction-fantasy, genre-fantasy-urban-fantasy

Lovely!! I think Gaiman is such a master at blending fantasy with reality and past legends in a way that is humorous, exciting, thought-provoking, and realistic enough to be slightly off-putting. He creates wonderful, dreamlike works that are a pleasure to read and new worlds that are hard to leave but also familiar. It is obvious Gaiman knows and loves London well and gets its atmosphere perfect in this novel. I also love all of his characters, particularly his powerful female ones, who usually ...more

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Dec 20, 2013 Mirliz rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy, standalone, fiction

I had thought for a long time that I should read something by Neil Gaiman. This was the first one I read, and sadly I was a bit disappointed. I liked the general idea of the story, the idea of another world in the London Underground. But for some reason, the story never really caught me, as well as the characters.

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