The Sandman: Act II
Author: Neil Gaiman & Dirk Maggs
Genre: Fantasy
Released: 22 September 2021
Rating:
The Sandman audio drama continues as Morpheus journeys through the French Revolution, ancient Rome, medieval Baghdad, and beyond. A vast cast of characters and historical figures are woven into a sprawling collection of dark tales. Continues the immersive production quality of Act I, though the anthology structure becomes more pronounced as individual stories take centre stage over a single narrative thread.
The Sandman: Act II really didn't hit the mark for me. When sharing my thoughts on Act I, I said:
What I did find weird, was that although there was a story throughout the book, it wasn't at the forefront. Instead, each chapter is it's own short story, some of which are tenuously linked, whereas others appear to be completely unrelated to one another.
This felt amplified 10-fold for this book. Every chapter feels like a short story of its own. In Act I we follow Morpheus getting all his gear back after being captures, but in this book the chapters feel totally unrelated.
Because of this I came away feeling unsatisfied. I get that this is based on comic books, so each comic is likely to have it's own short story (I don't know, I've never read a comic) but this collection of short stories wasn't that enjoyable for me.
As with Act I, the production quality is excellent, and most of the voice acting is great too. Albeit with one or two abysmal voice actors. The production quality is the only thing that pushed this from 2 stars, to 3.
I think I'm done with The Sandman at this point; I can't see myself wasting Audible credits on the rest of the series.
I entered "0" for the pages field above. Because it's an audiobook, it doesn't have pages. It's 13 hours and 47 minutes long though.
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