Book: Feet of Clay
Author: Terry Pratchett

I think this is perhaps my favourite Discworld so far.

This is the third entry in the City Watch series, and my 11th (?) Discworld since I started properly reading again.

I think my favourite thing about the Watch series are the characters. Knobs, Vimes, Carrot, Colon, Vetenari, Cheery, everyone is so fantastically unique and well-developed that it’s a joy to listen to them bounce off each other.

I lost count of the times I genuinely laughed out loud. Not a little exhale through the nose, but a full on laugh.

Both simultaneously hilarious, and actually thought provoking. The Golems and their treatment is downright sad, and awful (and I do love a good outcast story).

The way Pratchett manages to interweave humour and a genuine moral compass into his story is fantastic. I feel it did it so much better than Small Gods was able to. Balancing the fine line of well-told-story and beaten-over-the-head-with-metaphor, with ease.

I’ve already bought Jingo!, the fourth entry in the City Watch series and I’ll be reading that one shortly.

I really hope the final 3 Watch books manage to maintain this level of humour, storytelling, and whimsical idiocy.

4.6/5.0