Date Finished: 21/06/2012
My Rating: 3/5
I have to be honest, I am a little surprised that this is the highest ranking Pratchett book. Don't get me wrong, it's not my least favourite Discworld novel by any means. However, you will be able to tell from reading any of the other Pratchett review I have written that the Guards books are my favourites. Followed by the Witches. And then Death. Mort, unsurprisingly perhaps, is a Death book.
Full of the usual Pratchett observations, the reader is side-stepped into the Discworld where Death takes on an apprentice. Well, why not?! And so ensues a story of a human boy trying to understand that the universe expects certain things to happen at certain times, and that may be the death of an elderly witch, or a thief in the Lanes, or a young princess, and if any of these things that should happen don't happen, then time tries to catch up with itself and sort out the imbalance of nature.
As Death takes a step back, ending up trying his (more than capable) hand out at fast food preparation, Mort takes on his responsibilities with Pratchett effect.
So, who should read this book. Pratchett fans. Not Pratchett fans. It's a nice, easy book to get through. Maybe good around Hallowe'en.
Next book: The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
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