Author: Terry Pratchett
Begun: April 10th 2025
Finished: April 15th 2025
Type: Audiobook on Libby
Narrator: Stephen Briggs
Rating: 7/10
A chap with a Yorkshire accent invents steam locomotion, and brings it to Harry King in the hope that he'll bankroll him. He does. Moist von Lipwig gets roped into the fray. Vetinari behaves like the tyrant he is. Dwarfs are having internal squabbles that unfortunately lead to death and suffering. Vimes is....Vimes.
Adorabelle is given an Irish accent by Stephen Briggs and me no likey. She should sound like Claire Foy.
Most is quite unmoistlike. Turning into a raving murderous maniac seems quite out of character, no matter what the provocation. OTOH, the provocation was great.
Vetinari was also out of character. He was really really super tyrannical in this book and I didn't like it. I like him being all mysterious and we're really seeing far too much of him TBH. I like him when he was shadowy and not around much.
Vimes was very Vimes.
Some bits were good. Some were boring. Some were sooooo over the top theatrical it made me want to shove my fingers down my throat and gag myself with how sickly cloying it was. Faugh!
Ankh-Morpork is moving into the industrial era extremely fast and I don't know how I feel about it. Don't think I like it very much.
Honestly, it was pretty Meh for a Pratchett book. Will give them a rest for a while methinks.
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