A kind of bitter, sad, and hopeful ending this book gave me.

Really this story here is about acceptances and death. About knowing everything will eventually end, and facing that end, and what you can do with it. Multiple characters here deal with loss, including Dream and even Death herself. And it comes as a surprise how some characters face their final moments, some call backs to older characters, and how some characters get twisted so bad to be used as a weapon.

I'm being super vague because this is the accumulation of the entire run up to here. And it has some huge payoffs. Some wonderful character moments (I see you Matthew) and a ending that left me feeling...maybe a bit lost. Maybe because I myself fear death one day and this is so close to it every page you turn.

A fantastic volume and a huge step up from the disappointment of the last volume. A 5 out of 5.