A review by nelsonmaddaloni
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

5.0

The Death books are among my favorites, thus far, of the Discworld novels. This one rivals Mort in terms of endings and, in so many ways, is as beautiful and as poignant as that one if not more so. Reaper Man is a very interesting meditation of what it means to live and to be alive and do die, in so many ways. Death finds his own mortality encroaching upon him and decides to find out what it means to live as well. It's an absolute gem of a novel, I was moved by it. It's very funny too, in places, but Pratchett does this best too. Managing to make you laugh and cry and think within pages if not sentences of one another. I'm glad I'm back to reading this series, it does just feel right.