We open on Dream paging through a book labeled “Rose Walker.” In a flashback, a boy and a girl are packing to leave for New Jersey, but then their mom comes in to say that their (clearly abusive) father refuses to let the boy, Jed, go with them. The girl, Rose, will go with her mom to New Jersey and then send for Jed to join them later. Ugh. Desire, played very sexily by Mason Alexander Park, summons their sister Despair to talk with them about their plans for Dream. This is my least favorite thing: As in the comics,…
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The Doll’s House, Neil Gaiman
Published 13 Jan 2009
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Gin Jenny
Ooh, this volume is spookier than I remember. It’s a bit hard to explain the plot, which is intricately linked to other storylines, but in short, it’s about a girl called Rose, who is looking for her little brother. A number of other people are milling around: G.K. Chesterton, a woman who’s been pregnant for several years, a serial killer with teeth in his eyes, women with enormous spider collections, and that makes it interesting. Still, essentially it’s all about Rose. She has multicolored hair and numerous connections to the previous volume. She is also a vortex, which means that…
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