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Update on 24 Feb 2022:

I started listening to the audiobook again yesterday.... and what terrible, unhappy apropos. Waking up today to find that we have arrived at another Koom Valley, but there is no Vimes or Vetinari to stop the War!! :'(

Update on 1 Apr 2022:
It took me very long to finish. I had to stop occasionally, not because the book is not awesome, but because I kept drawing parallels with what is happening in the world.

The whole experience was cuttingly sharp and deeply sad.


“And yet we say this. Here in the cave at the end of the world, peace is made between dwarf and troll, and we will march beyond the hand of Death together. For the enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good...�

Original review

For someone like me who lives in a country (Hungary) with its Koom Valley fights (Trianon and all the lost wars) where infinitely corrupt & cynical politicians still do everything to cultivate xenophobia and use pseudo-nationalism & pseudo-christianity (banging our chest and bawling that we are sooo much better than all the hateful "different others" around us and ours is the only true way and we are absolutely right in looking down on and ostracise those lesser beings) to hide all their wrongdoings, pretending it's all for the benefit of "the people", makes this book especially poignant and I so much wish a Lord Vetinari & a Sam Vimes came forward and saved us from ourselves. *SIGH*

Anyways.... putting brooding aside... here we have another City Watch/Discworld book with a heartrending story full of humour, bile, tension, excitement and full of SAM VIMES, who is...., but you probably know by now about the literary love story going on between him and me, so I will spare you. :)

I love pretty much everything about this book and did I mention Sam Vimes? OK, so I did, just so you know I love the fact that Sir Terry manages to give him new dimensions again, when you'd pretty much think it's impossible.

And Death having a near-Vimes experience is practically perfect.

“A VERY ACCURATE ONE. YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON’T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK.�