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Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett

5 reviews

luxton's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Murder, Suicide, and Confinement

Minor: Alcoholism and Racism

mrkusabi's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Hate crime, Suicide, Sexism, Transphobia, Racism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcoholism

obviousthings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Racism, Animal death, Child death, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Ableism, Murder, and Police brutality

Minor: Transphobia, Vomit, Excrement, and Homophobia

numerous_bees's review against another edition

funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Pratchett had hit his stride by this stage of the series, handling the deep philosophical ideas which drive the Discworld stories so casually he makes it look incidental. The core of the Vimes/City Watch stories is class-based injustice, this time contained within a murder mystery story featuring dubious heraldry jokes (Arthur Carry, candlemaker, bought himself the family motto "Art brought forth the Candle", while Rudolph Potts the baker got "Because I knead the Dough") and wry observation ("fire escapes were unknown in Ankh-Morpork and the flames generally had to leave via the roof").

Despite starting to show its age and being a little creaky around the subplots, Feet of Clay remains one of my favourite Discworld books. Highly recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Slavery, Xenophobia, Racism, Sexism, and Police brutality

inka_z's review against another edition

funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Slavery, and Xenophobia