Finished The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes. This is a graphic novel collection of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series.

The Sandman series focuses on Dream, an Endless being who is responsible for overseeing the world of human dreams. Dream also has several Endless brothers and sisters, like Death, Destiny, Desire, etc.

In Preludes and Nocturnes, Dream gets accidently gets captured by a human seeking to imprison Death and is held prisoner for something like seventy years. When he gets free, Dream takes revenge on the son of the man who captured him and then sets out to find three tools that were taken from him – a ruby, a helm, and a pouch of sand. And it goes on from there.

My significant other loves these books and gave the whole Sandman series to me to read. I think the idea of Dream is a pretty cool concept, and some of the art is visually stunning. I enjoyed Dream’s quest in this one, and some of the other characters he encounters, like John Constantine and Lucifer, are interesting.

But the novel is pretty dark in places. It’s really more psychological horror than anything else, which isn’t a genre I normally read. You know me, I like to be entertained. Still, Gaiman will always make you think.

So, thumbs up.

Up next: Several more Sandman books.