msmith16 's review for:

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

4.0

adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Returned to the Discworld for some lighthearted escapism. Was not expecting it to be so relevant. Reading this reminded me that it's Pratchett's insight as well as his humour that makes him such a great author.

''Down there,' he said, 'are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.''