Maskerade
1995 • 381 pages

Ratings17

Average rating4.1

15

I quite enjoy this one, which is readable and amiable and features the witches, who are not up against any really stiff opposition this time. It also features Agnes Nitt, a young and ample lady who is maybe destined to be a witch but wants to be an opera singer instead.

It's not one of my favourites, perhaps because I'm not an opera fan, and furthermore I know nothing about The Phantom of the Opera. Also perhaps because it's lacking in regular characters, apart from Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Greebo the cat. (And Death, who always turns up everywhere, sooner or later.)

Agnes Nitt is a semi-regular character: she appears in a few other Discworld books.

The one-off characters created for this story are OK, but I don't mind that we won't see them again.

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