Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7)

by Neil Gaiman and Jill Thompson

Older and more powerful than the gods themselves, the Endless are a dysfunctional family of cosmic beings that have ruled over the realms of dream, desire, despair, destiny, destruction, death, and delirium since the beginning of time. On a mission to find Destruction, their missing sibling, Delirium and Dream encounter immortal humans and various deities.

• ISBN10: 1563891379
• ISBN13: 9781563891373
• Publish Date: 1 March 1999 (first published 1 December 1994)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 2 July 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: D C Comics (a division of Warner Brothers - A Time Warner Entertainment Co.)
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English

Reviews

[adastra]

This is one of my favorite volumes in the series – in it, Dream and Delirium go on a journey to find their long-lost brother...

[empressbrooke]

Coming off the least interesting volume in the series ([b:The Sandman Vol. 6 Fables and Reflections|25106|The Sandman Vol. 6 Fables and Reflections|Neil Gaiman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167577137s/25106.jpg|181895]), Brief Lives was a welcome high point. Delerium wants to look for Destruction, who left the Endless family and disappeared 300 years prior. Dream is the only sibling who agrees to accompany her; he doesn't want to find Destruction, but he does want to take his mind off a love affair that just ended.

Delerium was what made Brief Lives. She is absolutely charming and hilarious, and the interactions between her and Dream are just perfection. I loved how the issue titles reflected her spacey, meandering style of speaking. I loved the conversations that she and Dream and Destruction had. I don't normally give out 5 stars to just anything, but this volume had me giddy. I thought [b:The Sandman Vol. 5 A Game of You|25102|The Sandman Vol. 5 A Game of You|Neil Gaiman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184495538s/25102.jpg|810826] was deep, thought-provoking, charming storytelling, but Brief Lives just leaves it in the dust.