Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

How do I review this book without spoilering it?
Richard Mayhew gets drawn into the dark side of London - an underside where magic is real and where people can talk to rats and all that stuff. He ends up helping the Lady Door and the Marquis de Carabas fulfill their quest.

This book was truly amazing. This is only the second book I read by Neil Gaiman and I feel he is already becoming one of my favourite authors. His style of writing is just unbelievably great.
There are some fantastic metaphors in this piece. Like darkness being an actual force instead of just being defined as the absence of light. Darkness takes its toll. I loved that about the book.
Even though we’re entering a parallel London here we can still reflect our world with all these dark metaphors and characters that are just plain evil. And there are of course some good people, but you never know.

I have no words for it, guys. It was amazing.

(originally posted March 2016)

Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

I have to admit, this is the first book I ever read by Neil Gaiman. And I loved it.
It’s about an unnamed man that goes back to a pond (in his childhood he and his friend used to call it The Ocean) to remember his childhood. It’s about fears and friendship and adulthood itself. This is not a children’s book, though, I’d say!

I loved this book SO much, I had such a bad reading slump afterwards, it was awful. It’s hard to talk about this book without spoiling anything, but I’d like to classify it as a mixture between contemporary and fiction - and I love it. Did I already mention that?!

It taught me so much about adulthood - nobody is ever an adult. We’re all just children grown up on the outside. And I love Neil Gaiman for his words.

(originally posted September 2015)