3/30/2023 0 Comments Maskerade pratchettI still couldn’t help peeking at the end, several times, but even that didn’t detract from the story here. uh, darn it, I mean Agnes Nitt – a young woman with an amazing voice and a wonderful personality.I do love how I got drawn into the mystery of this one. or is he? It’s a guy in a white mask anyhow, and a guy in a white mask is the Ghost.Which is where we come across Perdita X Dream – I mean, Perdita X Nitt. Bettering the singers, destroying scenery, killing people. Where there’s a Phantom – I mean Ghost – “haunting” the city’s opera theatre. This time, the pair are for Ankh-Morepork. My favourite one so far: “Greebo could, in fact, commit sexual harassment simply by sitting very quietly in the next room.” Now that is animal magnetism to its fullest!Of course, with Greebo comes Nanny and with Nanny comes Granny. It’s the descriptions of him that I love the most. Mostly one little ball of fluff affectionately named ‘Slash’. He reminds me of several cats we’ve had over the years. The Librarian makes a guest appearance that is a little heavy-handed but works with the operatic nature of the main plot and (drum roll) Greebo the cat is back in a big way in this one and he is as always rakish & adorable! This one kept me guessing til the end as to not only who-done-it but what-they-had-done and why-they-did-it. Nice subplot that introduces the real book 'Nanny Ogg's Cookbook' which is used as a plot device to give Nanny a few fun things to do and plausibly move & re-move characters from the action as well as tie up a few loose ends in another sub plot. Various plot twists come into play and Granny & Gytha follow her and solve the mystery. The hitch is that Agnes has gone off to the big city to be an opera singer. In this offering Granny Weatherwax and Gytha Ogg think perhaps Agnes Nitt could be their third witch: the maiden to their mother & crone. ![]() This is the 5th in the Witches arc of the Discworld books that started with 'Equal Rites'. Some false clues, trapdoors, secret passageways and secret identities-basically all the elements for a good read that kept me up well into the night. Very good as usual! There are witches, opera, cats, ghosts and policemen. ![]() ![]() One of the few Discworld books I had not read.
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