Neverwhere

I just really, really love Neil Gaiman so you can guess how thrilled I was to discover that this audiobook was performed by Neil Gaiman himself.

This story is so enchanting. It is twisting and absolutely magical. I fell in love with London's Underside and I would gladly read many more books about Richard and the others. The setting is absolutely lovely and vivid in my mind. It's precisely the setting that I expect from Gaiman's novels.

The characters are all so unique and mystical themselves, and many of them are not what you would expect them to be. None of them are quite good and our hero, Richard, is certainly not very heroic. I also really liked this because of the lack of romance. So many of the books I read nowadays have romance in them that sometimes it's nice to read something without romance- especially when it would have been so easy for Gaiman to force a relationship between two of the characters into it. In this book, men and women can just be friends, which is also very fun to read about.

I loved this plot. It was unique and filled with surprises. It's not quite like anything I've ever read before, which is always exciting. The plot twists are excellent and I was so excited trying to figure out some of the mysteries- I was wrong most of the time, though. No surprise there.

But this audiobook... is... amazing. It's probably the best audiobook I've ever read and I think part of that was due to the fact that the author himself performed it. There is music and sound effects that add to the overall experience. Gaiman is also an excellent reader and gives the story and characters so much life.

I 100% recommend this book. Absolutely loved it.