Maskerade

A Discworld Novel

Paperback, 380 pages

English language

Published Nov. 5, 1997 by Corgi Adult.

ISBN:
978-0-552-14236-6
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(24 reviews)

The show must go on, as murder, music and mayhem run riot in the night...

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar evil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...

At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing.

So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)

"Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh" Independent

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reviewed Maskerade by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 18)

meh

meh, it was fine for a witch book. i liked it better than lords & ladies, but i wouldn't put it on my top 5 list. the plot was fine, i like Agnes better than Magrat, but i'm not 100% convinced with this ending. i think Agnes's full arc might take another couple of books before she comes to grip with who she is, maybe my opinion with improve with that, but for the moment, it's a distinct Meh from me.

reviewed Maskerade by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 18)

Everything I wish “The Phantom of the Opera” was. A seriously good detective story.

It’s almost impossible not to spoil this one by reviewing, but I’ll say that when I was watching the Phantom of the Opera, I was hoping for non-mystical resolution.

This book is an exemplar detective story, Mrs. Plinge could have just as well be written by Dame Christie and screenplayed by Mr. Horowitz.

Maximum points for detective story and half-a-point extra for, again, keen philosophy and cinematic writing.

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