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The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman

12 reviews

megsug's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Religious bigotry, Transphobia, Violence, and Deadnaming

Minor: Abortion and Sexual harassment

soumil_da_vinci's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

It gets darker in this book, the reason I stopped for a while in the middle. This steps up in the "oh shit, yuck" horror stuff and...I would say that you shouldn't pay a second thought to it and you'll be completely fine. If you think too much then you might have some weird thoughts and see stuff in darkness. That's how horror world ig.
Still, a decent story, but not at par with the other novel level stuff Sandman had produced in earlier books. But this is Gaiman so...I don't care, I will continue reading. Kudos.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Death

purplesaturday's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Transphobia, Animal death, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Grief, Hate crime, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy

sulfurandbrimstone74's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Transphobia, and Gore

m1nature's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Torture, Pregnancy, Deadnaming, Abortion, Physical abuse, Death, Animal death, Violence, Murder, Child death, Body horror, and Blood

sunsorbit's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Transphobia, Animal death, Blood, Deadnaming, Gore, and Violence

doomluz's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This one didn't connect to the Sandman / Morpheus or the mythos as much as the other issues so far. He was more of a secondary character.
It was an interesting story and I liked the theme around identity, but it also raised some questions about the Dreaming and a few characters that popped up.
This volume centered on Barbie (from Volume 2 The Doll's House) and explained why she has such a vivid dream.
There was a weird green bird in the dream that had the same name as me, which made me laugh, but also made me kind of confused about why she was named Luz.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Gore, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Death, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy

librarianmage's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, and Transphobia

Moderate: Murder, Animal death, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy

annamorgan27's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Transphobia, and Violence

steveatwaywords's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

One of the better in the series so far, this volume focuses on the role of dreams and identity; once again, the endless take on a background role so that we can focus on the problems of the human characters. The introduction by Samuel Delaney is worth reading, despite its length! The diversity of the characters is prominent here--and potentially problematized for readers 20+ years later--but worthy for all of that: there is plenty to talk about! I found I learned too little about the antagonist at the end, but this may perhaps be resolved later in the series. As ever, subtle (and not so subtle) connections to the rest of the series' stories throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, and Animal death