No, fantasy is a reflection of reality, but fantastic. He understands that it isn't elves dancing in a forest and drunk dwarves mining for gold with improbably well maintained beards. 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. I didn't enjoy this book as much as I should have. 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. 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. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. 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. He stops to help her-an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. 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. Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy.
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