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bluejayreads's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racism and Murder
Minor: Child death and Drug use
Possession/mind contrololma's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder
woweewhoa's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death and Drug use
Moderate: Racism, Murder, and Alcohol
ampharos906's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Misogyny and Police brutality
pprescott's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Murder
Minor: Police brutality and War
crufts's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Work never rests for the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork, led by Commander Sam Vimes. As the anniversary of the Battle of Koom Valley approaches, a historic battle between dwarves and trolls, ethnic tensions in the city are growing.
What could be worse than that? Only the theft of a famous painting depicting the battle, stolen from under the noses of the art gallery.
And what could be worse than that? A dwarf religious/cultural leader has been murdered, and clues suggest that a troll did it.
Can Vimes and his Watch find and apprehend the murderer before inter-species riots break out in the streets of Ankh-Morpork?
I enjoyed Thud! from start to finish, constantly wanting to know what would happen next. For starters, it's basically a murder mystery investigated by the Watch, which made for a fascinating plot. It's also very funny, as we've learned to expect from Terry Pratchett, but it still involves serious themes like racial tension and civil integration in an interesting way.
Like the previous novel Men at Arms, there are a lot of moving parts, but the novel didn't feel overly crowded or cluttered.
As far as great characters go, we're spoiled for choice. A bevy of beloved returning characters appear, including Lady Sybil Ramkin, Cpt. Carrot, Sgt. Angua, Sgt. Detritus, Sgt. Cheery (I haven't read her book yet! Gotta get around to reading Feet of Clay), photographer Otto Chriek, wizard university Chancellor Ridculley, Lord Vetinari, etc. It was impressive that the author was able to keep track of all these people and factions running around the city!
Speaking of characters, I liked that the women characters had important roles. Cpt. Carrot contributes to the investigation, but I liked that he was not able to solve everything - a lot of crucial tasks fall to the three Watch ladies (Cheery, Angua, and Sally the newly-hired vampire) since they all have nightvision and much of the investigation is underground. I wasn't completely interested by the Angua/Sally feud but admittedly it did seem in-character for them.
Finally, Commander Vimes being a dad was adorable.
Young Sam pulled himself up against the cot’s rails, and said “Da!” The world went soft.
The pacing was very good overall, although was a section near the end (after the climactic scenes where
Excellent novel, another must-read for Discworld fans.
Moderate: Drug abuse, Racism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, and War
Drug abuse: A character is addicted to several fantasy drugs ("slab", "scrape", etc), played for humour.Violence, war: The historic battle of Koom Valley.
Murder: The premise of the murder mystery.
Religious bigotry, racism: Fantasy racism between the dwarves and the trolls.
ladysanctuary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Confinement