Published by Headline Publishing Group
Under the streets of London... It's a place most people never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: neverwhere.
An interesting novel, telling the story of Richard Mayhew, who was living an ordinary life until he got pulled into a dangerous adventure in London below. London below is a London which exists underneath the real London. The world underneath is like a fantasy world, but unlike fairy tales there is not a happy ending for everyone.
Other important characters are: Door, a young women saved by Richard Mayhew, and the mysterious Marquis de Carabas. Two murderers have killed Door's family, and it is left to Door, Richard and de Carabas to unmask the one behind it.
The story is both funny and dark. Gaiman cleverly mixes history with myth to create the vivid world of London below. I would describe this novel as a unique way of describing society of people who are forgotten and ignored by the majority.
I really liked this book and would recommend this book to anyone, even if you are not a huge fan of fantasy. My only criticism is that there is not a sequel.
Rating: 10/10
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