Reviews - Maskerade | The StoryGraph

1.24k reviews for:

Maskerade

Terry Pratchett

4.12 AVERAGE

alexmu's review against another edition

4.0

A joy to read--Pratchett at the top of his game.

zivan's review against another edition

4.0

funny lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Maskerade is one of the top Discworld witches novels. With Nannie and Grannie going to Ankh-Morpork, Nannie's cook book, the Opera and Agnes's coming of age story.

This reread was of the new Penguin audiobook edition.

Indira Varma's Grannie and Nannie where very good. But yet again I prefer the less subtle performance by Nigel Planer. Walter Plinge, Enriko Basilica and others are stereotypes and are better suited for an overt performance.

hanej24's review against another edition

4.5

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sloejoe's review against another edition

3.0

Great fun all these years later. Granny and Nanny carry this book and the Opera is a ripe setting for Pratchett's humour.

jodannna's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

kchisholm's review against another edition

5.0

I've said before how much I particularly love The Witches subset of the Discworld novels, and I think this is possibly my favourite of them all. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are particularly resourceful, difficult, funny, enterprising and very determined in their desire to sort out the mess at a big city opera house, when a shadowy Phantom figure is killing people and frightening the living daylights out of many others. They are aided in their quest by a famous opera singer who is well sick of foreign food for reasons that aren't known to many - except the enquiring mind of Nanny of course. The whole story moves towards the final throws of the fat lady having a sing, a manic episode during an ongoing opera and some tricky decisions for Agnes Nit to make. Perhaps should have come with a warning not to listen to this one in the car, couple of times I was laughing so much I had to pull over!