I always feel a little exhausted after reading Sandman. And for good reason. It's dense. It's full of ideas and it's relentless in it's execution of them. There is a bit at the end of this where one of the characters comes to this realization that most people probably have thousands of worlds inside of them, and that's definitely true for Neil Gaiman. Even when this series is taking place on earth it still feels like it's unique to the characters specific to that world. I love the little connectors that he does, linking Foxglove back to Judy who was in the… first book… perhaps the second. And this book delves deep into fantasy more than the others.
I wouldn't say that this is the weakest in the series so far, but coming off of the last one, it didn't grab me as much. I enjoyed it, and there was some interesting things going on including a horrific dream sequence involving two babies…
Read it because it's part of the series, but it didn't knock my socks off.
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