“Mind the
gap!”
It's hard to
be a hero. Much harder to just be yourself.
If there is
something Gaiman has always excelled in, from his Sandman days to this book -
is ensuring that you never had to become something you are not in his world.
You had to just be yourself - flawed, heroic, ruthless, or even cowardly.
Yourself.
Richard
Mayhew isn't an extraordinary man or even an ordinary man of extraordinary
abilities. He is, as frugal as it sounds in description, kind. And that is
enough. In a world beyond the London he has come to know, in a world occupied
by supernatural beings that are only too human in their flaws and wishes, he
finds that the best thing to be, is yourself.
Gaiman
expertly uses geography as well, as London is revealed to the reader in
peculiar manner almost in literal irony. And he so deftly breathes life into
the new world Richard experiences. You feel for everyone Richard meets, well
almost everyone. Some people don't deserve your pain.
While some
deserve all of it.
In the end,
maybe you can't go home again. But don't worry, you may just find new ones
waiting for you.
Come
Richard. Let’s find you a Rat Speaker.
So, I give
it 8.5 out of 10.
+Brilliantly
crafted characters
+Wonderful
plotting
+Rich world
building
-Rushed
ending
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