‘Neverwhere’: a book review

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, to say the least, was a beautifully written book. There was a dark twist to an innocent idea. The book as a whole innocent and yet sinister. Neverwhere, originally seems like a fantasy novel like Harry Potter, main character gets taken away into mysterious world where only some people have access to, leaves behind ‘normal life’. However as the book progresses, there are ideas of deciet, nightmare and lies. It almost seems like a softcore — horror — fantasy, which contrasts a lot of the novels I read when I was younger.

You can really see how Richard changes throughout the book and yet still manages to stay in character. Gaiman didn’t make him completely change, arguably the dyanmic-ness of Richard was much better than Hermione in Harry Potter and The Philosphers Stone. Hermione changed quite a bit and lost her bossiness way too quickly. But Gaiman manged to make Richrd gradually change.

I worked on my thematic skills here as I made comparisons with different novels and I looked into the ideas in the book and in the real world. I also looked into Gaiman’s style and characterization.