Sara's Reviews > Reaper Man

Death has retired. Which might be a problem.

Death is by far my favourite character in the Discworld, and it feels especially poignant to read his stories now following the death of Terry Pratchett. There's just a small amount of melancholy that resonates from the pages. That said, I really enjoyed this and it made me laugh a fair few times. The wit and humour just can't be replicated by anyone else, and this just feels so British and wonderful.

The scenes with Bill Door are, obviously, my favourite - although I liked Ludmilla and Windle's stories too. The wizards I'm always inclined to like less, and their story does devolve into the more absurd. I like the more morally ambiguous dilemmas that Death faces. And he gets all the best lines and character interactions. The Death of Rats! Cyril the dyslexic chicken! If anything, I would have liked to have spent more time with Death and how he coped during his retirement.

Possibly not quite as good as Mort, in my opinion, but I do love these novels.