Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
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Gaiman took the script from his own miniseries and novelized it, and that's where many of the problems with this volume lay. While the plot moves along at a fine enough pace, and the pages turn quickly, there's not really much in the way of development going on. The characters are 2-D all the way through, and we never get to feeling that there's more than that surface. So if you're a person who can't find anything worth liking in a novel with badly-drawn characters, this probably shouldn't be the first place you turn when looking for something to read.
On the other hand, if a well-realized plot and some great place descriptions are
enough to make you eschew characterization, you could do a lot worse. Gaiman is quite
good at coming up with new and interesting places to send his characters, most of
which obviously started with the question "why in the world was this tube station
named
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