![]() ![]() Neil Gaiman also does a neat trick when it comes to the Kindly Ones themselves – there are the obvious ones, the fates in their form as the furies, but then there are also the other women that act, even unintentionally against Dream – Lyta the mother Nuala the maiden, and Thessaly/Larissa the crone. I knew what was coming at the end – I knew it before I read it the first time, even – but the sense of loss continued to affect me for days afterward. I was honestly amazed at how well it all worked and how saddened I was by several of the deaths. It has the darkness, the depth the title had from the beginning, but Neil Gaiman manages to pull all of its disparage storylines into one final epic and doesn’t miss a beat doing it. ![]() To me, as much as I love Brief Lives and a lot of the short stories in The Sandman, this is probably closest to what the title was always capable of. It’s long and unrelenting, but it does pay off in the end. But I was amazed by it this time – it’s perfectly paced and brutally heartbreaking. But I didn’t remember much else about reading it, other than a few scant plot details.Īnd yes, The Kindly Ones is still long, still messy and still complicated. ![]() I remember reading it for the first time in one sitting, not looking up for hours, and once I closed the book, I realized I was really hungry.Ĭertainly it was engrossing. ![]() I always remembered The Kindly Ones as being long, messy as complicated. ![]()
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