Unseen Academicals

Author:  Terry Pratchett

Begun: April 4th 2025

Finished: April 7th 2025

Type: Audiobook on Libby

Narrator: Stephen Briggs

Rating: 6.5/10

In order to not lose funding that pays for their nine meals a day, the wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University must play in a football match.  

Also, a lovely young man with a mysterious past and amazing skills is working in the Unseen University. He meets Glenda, who runs the night kitchen.   He works with Trev Lightly, whose Dad was an incredible football player. 

Glenda works with Juliet, who is astonishingly beautiful.  Trev falls in love with her and she with him.  Glenda is suspicious.  At the same time, however, she finds Mr. Nutt to be incredibly cultured, and she bakes him pies. 

All these threads swirl together to make the usual Pratchett magic.  

Not my favourite book...though I did very much like Glenda and Mr. Nutt.  It's not only about football....but it is a lot about football. 

There were too many disparate ideas.  It was like Pratchett had all kinds of fun things swirling around his head and tried to pull them together into one coherent whole and...I mean, it was entertaining...but wasn't his best.