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Neverwhere (London Below, #1)

Neil Gaiman

Start date: February 1, 2014

Finish date: February 28, 2014

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

Shelves: england, fantasy, humor, read-in-2016, london, pbt-fiction-100, adventure, 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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Sep 26, 2019 Daina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Gaiman's Neverwhere is wonderfully captivating, about a world parallel to yet so different from our own.

Richard Mayhew's life is turned upside down when he encounters the princess of another world gravely injured and in danger. Unbeknownst to him, he risks everything to save her, and nothing in his life is the same ever again.

The story had plenty of plot twists and was never short of danger, and had several interesting characters to boot. The pieces all fit together and it was a very satisfyin ...more

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Sep 14, 2014 Jenifer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, fantasy, england, 2014-read

It be a few pages to realize but I really really loved this book. It took a few pages because this being my second Gaiman novel, I am still getting used to his ideas and style of writing. We jump right in with two parallel stories of a Scottish man named Richard Mayhew and a strange girl named Door in a strange place with a some bad guys possibly trying to kill her.

Door is the type of girl that can open doors where there are no doors and can speak to rats when necessary. Richard is your ordinar ...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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Jun 20, 2008 Anna rated it it was amazing

This is one of my favorite books! Door is someone I'm sure I've met in my daily life (a little less surreal version of course), and my heart breaks for Richard, as he ends up outside Neverwhere. ...more

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