Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart, and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed, a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city, a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
Star Rating: —> 4.5 Stars
Buddy Read with Darcey!
I LOVED THIS. It was like some sort of urban fantasy odyssey, down the rabbit hole into London Below!
SO wondrous & fantastical & whimsical, while also being gritty & dark.
God, I love Gaiman! And as usual, Chris Riddell amazes with his whimsical sketch-like illustrations. I cannot believe that I waited so long to pick this up.
100% recommend!
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