This was a bit of an odd duck. I usually really like Pratchetts books, but this one wasn’t what I expected at all.

The usual ingredients were there:

• quirky characters
• absurd humor
• metaphors that come to life
• social commentary
• philosophy

and yet, the overal story arc didn’t really intrigue me. The whole time, I felt like I had missed something important that should make me care for the story more, but I never figured out what it is. It was still entertaining enough but not as amazing as I had hoped (and I really was in need of a good Pratchett novel).