Rating: 4/5
Review:
Great fun, but not one of the great man's best
I loved Soul Music when I first read it. On a third reading there is
still a lot to enjoy, but I don’t think it’s one of Pratchett’s
best.
The story involves
Death wandering off trying to forget all he knows, while his
“granddaughter” Susan has to step in and carry on the Family
Business. Meanwhile, a mysterious universal force is unleashed and
Music With Rocks In (i.e. Rock Music) is let loose in Ankh Morpork.
There are plenty of terrific jokes and musical references – some
wittily sly, some joyfully unsubtle – but as a whole it doesn’t
hang together as well as the real Pratchett classics, I think and I
found it dragging ever so slightly in places.
This is still great
fun, especially if you get references like:
“We lived in the
woods, among the evergreens.”
“It must have been
a big place?”
“More of a
shack…,”
Even a slightly
weaker book by Terry Pratchett is better than most, but although it’s
a lot of fun Soul Music isn’t out of the great man’s top drawer.
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