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A review by gossy
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
2.0
This… certainly was a book? Hm.
Pros:
- It’s fun to get more from Moist’s POV!
- I felt very sympathetic towards several of the side characters, even when I disliked certain aspects of their arcs.
- Moist and Adora’s attitudes towards one another are fun.
- Minorest of minor ‘spoilers’: It’s fun to see Vetinari… relaxing a bit, almost? Not in his general attitude of ruling, but he definitely seems to be doing stuff like eating more and (more openly) pursuing things that are fun for him compared to what I remember of him earlier in the series, hah.
Cons:
- This was all just… very disjointed. It’s a common course in Discworld books for the narrative to follow all sorts of wild, off-the-wall concepts that eventually collide in interesting ways towards the end of the book. That’s fine. Most of what was going on in this book wasn’t even all that wild.
But there’s not much… sinew between any of it in this book, not in the way I can normally see in Discworld. In most books, the different (seemingly absurd) threads all actually relate to one another, or at least end up intersecting because of some specific action. In this book, quite a few things seem to just kind of coincidentally happen at around the same time, and then also manage to coincidentally intersect in ways that just happen to cancel one another out.
- There’s at least one massive thing that felt like a straight-up plot hole to me, and once I thought of it I couldn’t unthink it.
- Adora gets sidelined through most of the book, and has barely any meaningful influence on the part of the plot that does involve her.
- This is among the latest of the Discworld books that I’ve read, and I’ll admit to being disappointed at the reminder that Pratchett never really stopped considering fat women and mental illness to be inherently funny. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pros:
- It’s fun to get more from Moist’s POV!
- I felt very sympathetic towards several of the side characters, even when I disliked certain aspects of their arcs.
- Moist and Adora’s attitudes towards one another are fun.
- Minorest of minor ‘spoilers’: It’s fun to see Vetinari… relaxing a bit, almost? Not in his general attitude of ruling, but he definitely seems to be doing stuff like eating more and (more openly) pursuing things that are fun for him compared to what I remember of him earlier in the series, hah.
Cons:
- This was all just… very disjointed. It’s a common course in Discworld books for the narrative to follow all sorts of wild, off-the-wall concepts that eventually collide in interesting ways towards the end of the book. That’s fine. Most of what was going on in this book wasn’t even all that wild.
But there’s not much… sinew between any of it in this book, not in the way I can normally see in Discworld. In most books, the different (seemingly absurd) threads all actually relate to one another, or at least end up intersecting because of some specific action. In this book, quite a few things seem to just kind of coincidentally happen at around the same time, and then also manage to coincidentally intersect in ways that just happen to cancel one another out.
- There’s at least one massive thing that felt like a straight-up plot hole to me, and once I thought of it I couldn’t unthink it.
- Adora gets sidelined through most of the book, and has barely any meaningful influence on the part of the plot that does involve her.
- This is among the latest of the Discworld books that I’ve read, and I’ll admit to being disappointed at the reminder that Pratchett never really stopped considering fat women and mental illness to be inherently funny. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯