Noel Griffin

Really struggled with this. I am sure there is an important message in here somewhere but it was buried too deep in convoluted dross. I really didn't like this one at all. Starts off in one direction gets lost along the way and then just ends. Adult characters are just terrible.

Finally finished this on the second attempt. Quite enjoyed it. The back cover states that “Ariel finds herself swept into a thrilling adventure of love, sex, death and time-travel. All cool, however not entirely sure why female characters who like sex have to be suffering from some sort of trauma and daddy issues as a way of explaining why they are really just self harming.

Cant say this booked grabbed me the way it seems to have for so many others. Reluctant to return to it meant it took far longer to get through than it should have. Thought it started interestingly enough but sagged in the middle. Never really connected to any of the characters but was disappointed to find the ending so predictable. Still enough things to like about it, including the writing style, to look forward to future work by the author.

Simple advice for us all.

Ah the last Disc World novel. It is not his best as you can tell that Terry wasn't finished. However, it is still well worth reading and is a fitting end to the series.
The fact that he managed to finish 5 novels after being announcing that he had been diagnosed with a nasty form of early onset alzheimer's is nothing short of miraculous.