B4B has completed another couple of book reviews. One is for Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere and the other is for the entire Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. As usual, she did a great job of reviewing both. Here are a couple of excerpts.

This book [Neverwhere] was an eye-opener for me on Gaiman’s amazing ability – the writing kept my interest, the story was a nice mixture of adventure and plot and I found the characters entertaining. What I most liked about this story (and subsequent Gaiman novels) is that although it is a fantasy story it is grounded in reality. Nothing is too obscure or goofy and everything is written to make the reader think that it is plausible…

Just when I was about fed up with this one-trick-pony of [A Series of Unfortunate Events], I reached the seventh book in which an overarching mystery is revealed and the children’s adventures become about solving the mystery and not about finding new places to live. The big mystery is written well from books seven through ten. There are clues and riddles that the Baudelaires must decipher; this larger plot involves the author, Lemony Snicket, Count Olaf and the children’s deceased parents. I found myself once again interested, however by book twelve there are too many clues and unanswered questions…

You can keep up with all her reviews and all the books she has read and is currently reading on her book page.