Review: Neverwhere

I’m late to the party on this one. I have lots of friends who have recommended Gaiman’s work to me for years, but I always had something more pressing to read. I enjoyed the one exposure I had to Gaiman, the 2007 movie version of “Stardust”, but it didn’t exactly rock my world.

The edition I read bore this cover; the current printing has a rather bland green cover.

Then I signed up for a course on popular fiction (which was subsequently cancelled [only in Seattle would a pop fiction course be cancelled in favor of a literary fiction course!]), and I saw Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere on the syllabus. I figured I’d run out of excuses, and picked it up at last.

Now, all this situating of how I came to read Neverwhere is important, because