"And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness.monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he know," (quote from back cover).
Neverwhere caught my attention and interest with its wide variety of characters and creatures. The theme of the book that i think is used would be "keep an open mind." Reasons being because throughout the entire book, Richard Mayhew constantly questions, doubts, and believes everything is not happening, which almost costs him his life multiple times. Also this characteristic begins to get on Door's nerves that he acts so ignorant at times. And one more reason being that none of that would have happened if Richard did not stop to help Door. Meaning that you should make the best of life because interesting things will happen.
The setting of the book plays a major role in impacting Richard. First of all, everything seems the same, to an extent, making Richard have to trust that things are different. Also there are new places inaccessible to Richard before, which plays with his logic and sanity. thirdly, among these places, magic exist around places of the environment, further messing with his mind.
Now, on the topic of connections to other things, the only book I would think comes close to the creativity of this would be Alice's adventures in Wonderland. And I like how they use real places in Britain, connecting the book the the real world.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to the explore the boundaries of imagination and sanity.
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