Mia O. reviewed on 4/10/2010 + 5 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I'd recommend this book a hundred times over. It was my favorite read throughout junior high and high school. I still revisit it every once in a while, just for the good memories. Gaiman is at his best here -- seamlessly mixing magic and reality in the story of Richard, an everyman office drone who stops one night to help an apparently homeless girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. The girl turns out to be Lady Door, an aristocrat from the Other London; a feudal, underground world where people who fall through the cracks of our reality live side by side with monsters, immortals and the occasional angel. By helping Door, Richard unwittingly becomes a part of her world.

Now his apartment and his job are taken over by strangers; his friends and family don't recall that he ever existed. Richard follows Door on a quest to help her discover who killed her family, hoping that along the way, he'll find a path back to his old life. They meet a host of memorable characters (including Messrs. Croup and Vandemar, who are hands down the most delightfully evil villains I've ever read), and battle ultimate evil; and Richard begins to wonder if his old, safe life is really the one he wants to lead.

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