Book Review: Neverwhere
This is book forty-seven in 52 weeks.
Neil Gaimen was the writer for the amazing comic series Sandman, as well as a few novels and children’s books. He’s great at everything I’ve read so far, and while Neverwhere isn’t perfect, it’s pretty great. The main character Richard goes from normal London to London Below after saving a girl, where he meets various other characters in a dark world. Time is different in London Below, and the characters move from place to place meeting talking animals and various dangerous people, while trying to figure out who killed the family of the girl he rescued.
It uses so many real-life areas of London, I imagine it’s even more interesting to read about them if you actually know of the places he’s talking about. The descriptions of the strange world below are interesting and fun to read, and while the plot seems to waver about a little, it’s all resolved very nicely. I enjoyed the characters, especially the dark humor that went along with Richard, the main character. The whole thing reminded me a bit of Wizard of Oz and the movie Brazil for some reason, just a great collection of interesting characters and a world that is similar to ours, but not exactly ours.
B
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- Heliologue reviews The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Nick reviews The Gunslinger by Stephen King
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