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4.5 AVERAGE
4.5 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I have a soft spot for Terry Pratchett and the Watch series, and this book is a very compelling part of the Watch tableau. The characters are all fun and the darker humour and serious tone is appreciated (the jump back to regular Ank Morpork is a bit jarring at the sequence in the past).
Also Carcer and Swing are both incredibly creepy characters, made all the more by there significant if short appearances.
Also Carcer and Swing are both incredibly creepy characters, made all the more by there significant if short appearances.
adventurous
emotional
funny
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:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
fast-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
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
To quote the Guardian: 'It has profound moral complexity, hard emotional impact, careful plotting, gritty political insight, and, best of all, raw, urgent humanity'
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Night Watch is Discworld's 29th instalment, and the 6th book featuring the City Watch. More accurately, this book is about Commander Sam Vimes, who gets caught up in a time travel incident while chasing a serial killer, which fits neatly with the ending of Thief in Time (book 26). He finds himself back in his younger years, at the brink of a revolution in Ankh-Morpork. To get back to his own time, he must let the events run their natural course; a task that is hard to do with that same serial killer on the loose, and being a copper trained to arrest any troublesome citizens...
This book is another fantastic City Watch book, this being my favourite subseries. Sadly, the wonderful cast of coppers from previous books features only very briefly, it being more of a Vimes book (and of course, the greater part plays out in ye olden times, when the Watch was rather less open-minded). It's about bloody revolutions and the intrigue behind it, and the logic of Vimes trying to make sense of it all, which is, as always, fantastic.
This book is another fantastic City Watch book, this being my favourite subseries. Sadly, the wonderful cast of coppers from previous books features only very briefly, it being more of a Vimes book (and of course, the greater part plays out in ye olden times, when the Watch was rather less open-minded). It's about bloody revolutions and the intrigue behind it, and the logic of Vimes trying to make sense of it all, which is, as always, fantastic.
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes