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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 2   drneutron | Oct 31, 2009 |  Damned good read, and perfect if you have 'a thing' for London and its secret architectural anomalies. Abandoned tunnels, magic, majik, and intrigue galore. Ghosts, crime, and revenge. Golden and Lebbon have a damned good time shoving their scary ways into your head. (  ) iamiam | Aug 23, 2009 | Enjoyed this quite a bit. Jazz comes home to find her mother murdered and the Uncles who'd taken care of them all her life waiting to kill her as well. She bolts, and ends up underground, accepted into a gang of thieves. The ghosts of London's past also live underground and she can hear and see them a bit too clearly for comfort. I could tell that two people wrote the novel, a lot of chapters did a short recap so there were small discontinuities throughout, but the tone stayed constant. I kept being pulled along by the story, but it was easy enough to stop at each chapter break. I kept noticing non-British term use, like first/second floor instead of ground/first, but I'm a bit of a geek like that. :) (  ) silentq | Feb 2, 2009 | This was a much better book that the previous Christopher Golden book I'd read (Myth Hunters), probably because it was co-written with Tim Lebbon. Mind the Gap follows the story of Jazz, a young woman who ends up uncovering the 'real' United Kingdom under the metro. The story is fast paced, Jazz is literally on the run through the whole novel. She was raised to trust no one (her mum instilled a strong sense of paranoia in her and it serves her well) and she finds that this is almost always the case. Golden and Lebbon create an alternate universe, filled with ghosts, magic and answers to questions Jazz didn't even know she wanted answered. As her mum tells her, there are no such things as coincidences -- something that rings true throughout the book as well. It's a good book, a fun read, though I was expecting something a little different. The 'hidden cities' subtitle is a bit misleading, but makes sense in an abstract way. Hidden cities doesn't mean a city within in a city, more that the city has secrets. I am curious as to what the next books in this collection will be about. (  ) callmecayce | Jan 4, 2009 | "Jazz hide forever." When Jazz's mother is murdered, she leaves Jazz this message written in her own blood. Jazz flees to the tunnels under the city of London. Here she finds her future and her past. "Trees grow, age, and die, and then they fall. So it is with history. History's all about rise and fall…"-Harry, professional thief and underground resident. (  ) BlonnieMay | Oct 21, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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In Mind the Gap, Golden and Lebbon have imagined a London where magic still exists and the memories of days gone by are found as ghosts in the tunnels and abandoned railways of the Underground. It's a dark little fantasy that pulls the reader into the hidden things behind our commonplace world. The book drags in the middle just a hair, but other than that, it's quite entertaining. The (loosely coupled) sequel is set in post-Katrina New Orleans, so I'm looking forward to see how that one is! (