Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere. Neil Gaiman. It’s hard to review this as a whole book, because it’s hard to think of anything but the ending. Heartbreaking, and beautiful — probably because it strikes terribly close to the bone for sci-fi and fantasy lovers. Hidden in the darkest corner of our soul, what Richard is given is our heart’s desire, what we want more than anything else in the world. But for us, unlike Richard, it is impossible. There is no doorway in the wall. That’s the heartbreaking part. The beauty is that he does, and through him we get a brief, vicarious flash […]