Tolkien would’ve felt threatened, were he still alive. One of the strengths of the Discworld is the breadth of topics which were covered, enabling Sir Pratchett to build a world of such complexity that even J. Personally, I think that it was clever of Pratchett to do this, because he’s not really experimented with time travel too much and so it’s a pretty unique read from that perspective.

The plot itself is one of Pratchett’s more ambitious, but it works – I usually try not to give too much away with my reviews, and I’ll try to do the same here, but it’s notable enough that I want to give you a brief synopsis.īasically, just when Sam Vimes is starting to get used to a life in which he has (comparatively) everything, he finds himself transported backwards through time to when he was first getting started out on the mean streets of Ankh-Morpork, and, of course, there are people out to get him.īecause of that, this book is a milestone in the Discworld’s evolution, and it’s interesting to get a glimpse into the youth of Sir Samuel Vimes, and the surroundings in which the beloved character came from. That said, there are plenty of other things to mark this book out as one that’s particularly worthy of attention. Vimes is one of my favourite characters, as is Vetinari – both of them appear here, so it’s automatically going to get a high score from me.

Now, it’s pretty obvious that I’m a Discworld fan, considering the number of Terry Pratchett reviews that I’ve already written, and I’ve also mentioned multiple times that the City Watch books are my favourite miniseries within the series.

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