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“All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman

January 24, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

This is one of those books that come heavy with the weight of other people’s expectations. I genuinely had almost no idea what it was about, only that the people who love it LOVE IT, and I had a general idea that it was pretty weird. The only thing I knew for sure was that Death was a character, because Gaiman spun her off into her own comic at one point. I added it to my TBR when it became apparent that I would probably like it if […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #fantasy, Comics, faintingviolet, narfna, Neil Gaiman, preludes & nocturnes, The Sandman, the sandman vol. 1, Vertigo

narfna's CBR11 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #fantasy, Comics, faintingviolet, narfna, Neil Gaiman, preludes & nocturnes, The Sandman, the sandman vol. 1, Vertigo ·
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