Even though Gaiman's "Neverwhere" shares a lot with "Stardust", I felt this story was much more believable, more captivating. Again we have a relatively small "other world" that shares borders with what we know as reality, filled with exotic and esoteric beings, from the sniveling and meek to the powerful and evil. Again we have a somewhat high-placed, important damsel in distress, and a blunder-head guy with some enigma of a connection to this other place who happens to be the hero and eventually experiences that all-important rite of passage. Is Neil projecting that desperately?
It is hard to put my finger exactly on what I liked better about this book. The story is foreign to me, which I liked, with a appreciable (and some that you like to hate) cast of characters. The hard decisions that have to be made are poignant, although somewhat clouded by the context.
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