A review by midici
The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

4.0

I'm not even sure I can write a review for this book. This ninth volume is the largest, most jam-packed book in the Sandman series. Gaiman gathers the loose threads from his previous volumes and weaves them all together into one last narrative about Morpheus. It has been five years since Morpheus was freed from his imprisonment. He has spent much of his time rebuilding the land of Dream and mending his relationships with other people - with his siblings the Endless, with former lovers, with friends and creations alike. In the previous volume Morpheus finally forgave his son, and killed him. This act has left him open to rage of the Furies, also known as the Kindly ones. They seek vengence for blood-debts, when someone has killed a member of their own family. Using Lyta, an unstable women who believes Morpheus kidnapped and killed her son, the furies set out to destroy Morpheus.

It was best described in the introduction by Frank McConnell:

"...this story is a magnificent parable about the humanization of myth; about how the values of regret, responsibility, and the aweful duties of love outweigh even the power and majesty of the gods we invent and then worship."