Neverwhere

If I could, I think this review would be a 3.5-4ish, and not a full four stars, but I wouldn't knock it down to three, so four it is. Richard Mayhew himself isn't terribly memorable – it's the characters he becomes surrounded by, purely by chance. Neverwhere is kind of a warped Alice style story, in that Mayhew goes from regular old London to the crazy fantasy London Below, where angels and demons and women named after doorways take him on an adventure he never could have dreamed in a million years.

Gaiman's got a great style, and a wicked sense of humor, so all in all I had a great time reading this novel, and I'd definitely loan it to a friend (so long as they promised to give it back when they were done).