Always lovely to read a Terry Pratchett novel and to lose yourself in the madness.
This time around I had half an idea what to expect, having watched endless adverts for the adaptation currently showing on Amazon Prime. I also confess to being highly tickled at the number of people who’ve signed a petition to have the series cancelled for its blasphemous content.
From the opening pages it’s clear that we are in rather unusual territory. There are plans afoot to swap a human child with the Antichrist but they get it wrong, and the child is adopted. They are taken to live in a rural village where nothing ever happens…until the onset of the Apocalypse.
However, there are certain entities determined to prevent the Apocalypse. It’s in their interests to prevent the end of the world. Unfortunately, when they realise they’ve misplaced the Antichrist it is a rather difficult job to work out what to do next.
I always find it hard to review novels by Terry Pratchett because the joy for me is not in the story, it’s in the random links and associations made and the rapid jumps from one idea to the next.