Jennifer Kesler at The Hathor Legacy has another post up on the female characters in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (the series).

I blogged this before because I thought it was an excellent post and an equally excellent discussion broke out in the comment thread. I’m re-linking for the same reasons.

Despite these things, it is really good to see a story about an ordinary (even dorky, I would say) man surrounded by extraordinary women and men. This is a vast step-up from the usual stories of extraordinary men surrounded by adoring/decorative women, or ordinary men surrounded by extraordinary men and adoring/decorative women. The women in Neverwhere have not only agency but clear personal goals. Most of them are on quests of their own, and it’s explicitly through the quests of Door and Hunter that Richard discovers himself.

Read on. And blogroll The Hathor Legacy, already, will you? They do good work.

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