Kerry's review
The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author!)
By far the longest and most complex of the Sandman storylines, collecting nine issues of the monthly series and drawing together many of the threads that had been percolating throughout the course of the series, most notably Lyta Hall and her child from "The Doll's House." Lyta's whose misguided search for vengeance leads her to engage the services of the Kindly Ones of the title, a familiar three-woman collective who specialize in a very specific sort of revenge. Along the way many of the series's significant (and insignificant) return, leave, change, are killed, or resurrected, or a combination thereof, including Rose Walker, Loki, various denizens of The Dreaming, and still more. This story, the climax of this series eulogized (literally) in the following, final collection, gets a bit long-winded and often meanders away from the point in its attempts to make every reference, allusion, and point of continuity work, but it's still a fitting end, and I mean that in...more
