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A review by crookedtreehouse
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
2.0
This was one of the weakest of the Pratchett books I've read so far. The storytelling is fine, but I don't think I needed a Phantom Of The Opera parody set in Discworld for an entire book.
The premise of the witches looking for a new third should have been more fun, or could have been cut down to a novella. This story kept dragging on, and none of the jokes really landed for me.
When I first read a random assortment of Pratchett books twenty years ago, I thought I didn't like the witch books, and I'm wondering if reading this volume was one of the reasons why. Because on this massive reread, I do love the characters, and felt they were wildly underutilized here.
It's still ok. But I'm pleased to move on to the next book.
The premise of the witches looking for a new third should have been more fun, or could have been cut down to a novella. This story kept dragging on, and none of the jokes really landed for me.
When I first read a random assortment of Pratchett books twenty years ago, I thought I didn't like the witch books, and I'm wondering if reading this volume was one of the reasons why. Because on this massive reread, I do love the characters, and felt they were wildly underutilized here.
It's still ok. But I'm pleased to move on to the next book.