Overwhelmingly Delightful, Witty, and FunnyRichard is leading an average life, walking to an important dinner with his fiancée Jessica, when he finds a bleeding young woman on the sidewalk. He scoops her up and tends to her, much to the chagrin of Jessica. The young woman is named Door, and she changes Richard’s life forever. He is transformed into two worlds: London Above (his normal world) and London Below. I haven’t been this excited about a book since His Dark Materials. This is one where I ...

(A-) 80% | Very Good
Notes: A quizzical conception, it takes a bit to get the gist, though story-thin, it sucks you in: urban Don Quixote with a twist.

As the song goes, “Do you believe in magic, in a [Neil Gaiman book]?”And the answer is yes.https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.co...Well, the answer for me is yes. I can’t comment on your answer. But like, if your answer is no...what is wrong with you? Read a damn Neil Gaiman book, you cretin. Allow yourself that happiness.Anyway.The fact that this is Neil Gaiman’s first novel makes me want to throw up and die. How do you write a first novel like this? It is beautiful, it is creative, it is magic...

Be careful if one falls into the house with the Door Because she could be more than you would expectIt´s a typical male problem, an attractive young woman called Door comes into one's life and suddenly, one has no more other thoughts in mind. In this case, one even has sudden problems with everything else, so the only option is to Go undergroundThis worldbuilding is some of the best Gaiman ever imagined, I would subjectively call it my favorite until the one day big reread may teach me better. B...

Sometimes the books you once kinda liked just... hit a bit different when you learn too much.This one used to be a 3 star read. My original review - cause some can separate the art and this book had rather good elements... but I'm really struggling here.Richard Mayhew had a perfectly ordinary life, thank you very much.He had a job that he didn't quite hate, a fairly decent apartment and a lovely fiancee (despite what his friends thought). One night, he and his fiance stumble upon a broken, bleed...

I won this in a Goodreads/Firstreads Giveaway! Yay! Look at these pictures! Sorry for the darkness. We were in the sunlight but it canceled us out. Anyhoo! I am in love with the looks of this little book! It doesn't have a dust jacket! It's one of my fav hardbacks! I love them without the dust jackets. I have added a picture of the front and back. I have also added a picture of just one of the many illustrations through-out the book and the inside book flap that isn't really a flap but they made...

(A-) 80% | Very Good
Notes: Wherein the hero (twice) and villain share the same desire: deliverance from exile to a world they long to return to.

I first started reading this book and honestly wanted to just chuck it in the bin. I said very mean things about the protagonist under my breath.Surely, I said, a Protagonist means that they are pro and totally into furthering the story. Surely, Protagonist is the similar to Proactive and Productive.I was wrong. The word Protagonist, in its basic form is not similar to proactive. It simply, from the Greek plays, means the principle character or the first speaking character.However, I maintain th...

Neverwhere was my first real introduction to the world of urban fantasy - a clever take on Alice in Wonderland, one can say, set in the semi-magical, unsubtly dangerous, and quite fantastically warped world of 'London Below'."Young man," he said, "understand this: there are two Londons. There's London Above - that's where you lived - and then there's London Below - the Underside - inhabited by the people who fell through the cracks in the world. Now you're one of them. Good night."Neverwhere is ...

I didn't enjoy this book as much as I should have. I kept distracting myself with the thought, "Why the hell haven't I read more of Neil Gaiman's books?" Then I would have to tell myself to shut up, because I'm reading one right now, and I can return to berating myself later.Neil Gaiman really understands fantasy. He understands that it isn't elves dancing in a forest and drunk dwarves mining for gold with improbably well maintained beards. No, fantasy is a reflection of reality, but fantastic. ...