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4.44 AVERAGE
4.44 AVERAGE
This was the most interesting read of them all. Let's just say that it will take you... for a Hell of a ride. *Sunglasses* YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Sandman universe continues to be equal parts engrossing and disturbing. These stories are easy to get lost in, even if the art isn't always to my liking. There's a lot to appreciate about Gaiman's sardonic take on hell—e.g. that it's something people ultimately inflict on themselves (they could leave if they chose), and that eternal damnation without any corrective purpose would one day bore even Lucifer himself to tears.
Gaiman gives the various gods, demons, abstract forces, and manifestations of the human psyche that converge in this volume satisfyingly irrational motives and quirks—or, rather, he takes a human vice or fixation and amplifies it out of all proportion before assigning it to one of his characters. I think it's that distorted funhouse mirror effect that makes them all interesting—if a bit unnerving—beings to share story-space with.
Not sure if I want to pat Sandman on the head or take an anvil to it. Like, he's learning ~good and important things~ but it takes him ten frelling thousand years to figure them out. What a dork.
Gaiman gives the various gods, demons, abstract forces, and manifestations of the human psyche that converge in this volume satisfyingly irrational motives and quirks—or, rather, he takes a human vice or fixation and amplifies it out of all proportion before assigning it to one of his characters. I think it's that distorted funhouse mirror effect that makes them all interesting—if a bit unnerving—beings to share story-space with.
Not sure if I want to pat Sandman on the head or take an anvil to it. Like, he's learning ~good and important things~ but it takes him ten frelling thousand years to figure them out. What a dork.
Four books in and I'm still not entirely sure whether this series is for me, but I did find this installment to be more satisfying than the previous one. Morpheus's journey into Hell to rescue Nada was an interesting one from start to finish and included a cast of very colorful secondary characters. The brief diversion with Charles Rowland at his nearly abandoned school is incredibly creepy and disturbing.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
dark
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:
Yes