Pratchett does his best work when he’s telling a story first, rather than using the plotline as a vehicle for his humour, and this book definitely fits that category. Many consider this novel to be one of the better in the series and I now stand among them. Fortunately, the book had more in store for me than I expected. This had an unfortunate effect on me coming into this one, however, because while I was excited to read about the characters again, I was also a little dismayed that because I’d read the sequel, which refers to the events of this book, any suspense or tension might be diffused.
I have a particular relationship with this cast of characters, having first been introduced to the entire series through them in Men at Arms years ago, the 16 th Discworld novel and second book to feature Captain Vimes and the Watch. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett is the eighth novel in the comic fantasy Discworld series, and the first to feature the character Sam Vimes and the guards of the Night Watch of Ankh-Morpork. But this time, something is different – the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they don’t fully understand, and they’re about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city. Captain Sam Vimes of the city’s ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. Insurrection is in the air in Ankh-Morpork.
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