Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Rating: 5 stars

Adult - Spice: None

Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy

Tags: Magic, Book Review

Richard is your average guy in London who goes to his nine to five. But one chance encounter with a bleeding woman that he can’t seem to just leave changes his whole life. He can’t stop but wants to make sure she’s okay, even as he seems to disappear from his own world.

This was originally a television serial, and a spoken word CD by the same name. That being said, the book lets us get a deeper look into the world building. Richard is a kind person and yet leads a very bland life before he meets Door. Door is so complex and a bit of an enigma. The story is one that sweeps you into this fantastical world that will not let you go. I loved reading this book and have also listened to the audio radio play with an all-star cast. Both are brilliant and recommend either but don’t miss out on reading this book, it is absolutely amazing.

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Book

“It is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world—and may well die trying.”

BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation

“Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere.... An act of kindness sees Richard Mayhew catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below. There he meets the Earl of Earl's Court, faces a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, comes face to face with the Great Beast of London, and encounters an Angel. Called Islington. Accompanied by the mysterious Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the bodyguard Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary quest to escape from the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and to discover who ordered them to murder her family - all the while trying to get back to his old life in London Above. Adapted for radio by the award-winning Dirk Maggs, this captivating dramatisation features a stellar cast including David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head and David Schofield. Contains over 25 minutes of additional unbroadcast material, including extended scenes, bloopers and outtakes.”