Neverwhere: Neil Gaiman

Title: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

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Richard Mayhew is an unassuming young businessman living in London, with a dull job, and a pretty but demanding fiancee. Than one night he stumbled across a girl bleeding on the sidewalk, He stops to help her --and the life he knows vanishes like smoke. Several hours later, the girl is gone too. By the following morning Richard Mayhew has been erased from his world. His bank cards no longer work, taxi drivers won't stop for him, his landlord rents his apartment out to strangers. He has become invisible, and inexplicably consigned to a London of shadows and darkness-to a city of monsters and saints, murders and angels, that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth of sever canals and abandoned subway stations. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.

For this is the home of Door, the mysterious girl whom Richard rescued in the London Above. A personage of great power and nobility in this murky, candlelit realm, she is on a mission to discover the cause of her family's slaughter, and in doing so preserve this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it. With nowhere else to turn Richard Mayhew must now join the Lady Doors's entourage in their determined and possibly fatal quest.

My Take:
It was not his best work to be honest. The book was dark and held my attention. Some of the characters seemed two-dimensional. They were not developed enough before they were killed off or written out of the book yet Gaiman tried to pass them off as meaningful parts of the story. So far Stardust is still my favorite of this spooky author's works.

Time- Once I got started it took about a week to read.
Rating- 3.5/5 stars