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A review by marthmuffins
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
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Feet of Clay - 4/5
Another really solid entry in the Discworld series from Terry Pratchett, and the 3rd book in the City Watch sub-series. This one's more of a murder mystery police procedural, investigating some bloody murders throughout Ankh-Morpork and the mysterious poisoning of one Vetinari. The investigation here is solid, leading to a lot of fun gags and interesting diversions through Ankh-Morpork's streets for the Watch. We also get a lot of solid character moments for all of our major Watch Officers, especially for Angua, Vimes, Carrot, and new character Cheery Littlebottom (with Nobby, Fred, and Detritus getting a fair amount too).
Thematically, Pratchett's going for a lot of commentary on both discrimination and a classic anti-authoritarian thing about power. It's all fairly solid, although does end up clashing with the fact that the main characters are all police officers (something which is lightly touched on in the book itself) and a number of the jokes end up deriving from "haha, police abusing their power" or some variation which, whilst never meanspirited, hasn't exactly aged too gracefully.
Howeverm, those issues aside I still really had fun with this Discworld adventure. excited to get to Hogfather this Christmas time.
Another really solid entry in the Discworld series from Terry Pratchett, and the 3rd book in the City Watch sub-series. This one's more of a murder mystery police procedural, investigating some bloody murders throughout Ankh-Morpork and the mysterious poisoning of one Vetinari. The investigation here is solid, leading to a lot of fun gags and interesting diversions through Ankh-Morpork's streets for the Watch. We also get a lot of solid character moments for all of our major Watch Officers, especially for Angua, Vimes, Carrot, and new character Cheery Littlebottom (with Nobby, Fred, and Detritus getting a fair amount too).
Thematically, Pratchett's going for a lot of commentary on both discrimination and a classic anti-authoritarian thing about power. It's all fairly solid, although does end up clashing with the fact that the main characters are all police officers (something which is lightly touched on in the book itself) and a number of the jokes end up deriving from "haha, police abusing their power" or some variation which, whilst never meanspirited, hasn't exactly aged too gracefully.
Howeverm, those issues aside I still really had fun with this Discworld adventure. excited to get to Hogfather this Christmas time.