Discworld genius ( )

All of the favorites from the Ankh-Morpork City Watch are back, including Commander Samuel Vimes. There is even a new mysterious face on The City Watch, Lance Constable von Humpeding. She is a lovely ethereal vampire who is teamed up with no other than Sergeant Angua.

This medieval mystery involves the legend of Koom Valley and the present death of Grag Hamcrusher, a dwarf. The only clue is a heavy club allegedly believed to belong to one of the warring trolls. Naturally, when it comes to Ankh-Morpork, no gets away with murder on Commander Vimes’s watch.

The mayhem of trying to keep the peace between two totally opposite factions such as the trolls and the dwarves, being meticulously audited by A. E. Pessimal, and two enamored female officers is hilarious. To add to the fun, the reader is allowed to venture deeply into the ‘strangely peculiar’ world of dwarves and trolls like never before. Idiosyncrasies abound! ( )

Thoroughly enjoyed this - Pratchett once again demonstrating how he can use his parallel universe to address serious topics like intolerance ( )

This is my third Terry Pratchett book that I have read and I have to say that it has to be my favorite at the moment. My favorites scenes were Sam Vimes reading Where's my Cow to Young Sam. As a mother it just touched my heart I guess. Pratchett can not only make you laugh uproariously at times but can also make you think about the world around you. ( )

The anniversary of the battle of Koom Valley, an ancient conflict between the Dwarfs and the Trolls, is coming up, and tension in the city of Ankh-Morpork is rising. Commander Samuel Vimes can smell trouble, and he'll do anything to keep the city safe. When a rabble-rousing Dwarf is murdered, the Dwarfs immediately blame the Trolls, and it looks like blood will wash through the city. Not with Vimes and the rest of the Watch on the case. A sinister secret from the depths is working its way into the real world again, planning to use the animosity between the two races as its entry point, but it keeps getting stymied. Will the Watch solve the case and bring the perpetrators to justice? And just what is the secret of Koom Valley, and what does it have to do with this entity? And will Vimes be able to keep his daily six o'clock appointment with his young son to read Where's My Cow? ( )