"Witches Abroad" by Terry Pratchett

This is a very different book than Unseen Academicals. Part of this may be due to the fact that it doesn't take place in or around the Unseen University, and only actually mentions Ankh-Morpork once or twice. My favorite character overall did show up, though: Death.

(Is it weird that my favorite character is Death? He's just kinda nice, and I do have a fondness for overpowered bystanders.)

Basically, this is a story of three witches (Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick) traveling to Discworld New Orleans (which has been partially turned into a generic fairy-tale city) to stop the story of Cinderella from happening. Because one of Cinderella's fairy godmothers told Magrat to, and the other two insist on sticking their noses into her business. It has a different style of humor than Unseen Academicals, and I didn't care for this one as much. 

 

We also get a couple of other stories dumped into the mix, notably a house |falling on Nanny Ogg for no reason. Nanny Ogg is fine,| apparently due to her hat.

(Note: Speaking of Nanny Ogg, did you know that the .ogg file format is how all of Minecraft's music and random sounds are stored? Now you do.)

 

Were this a videogame, I'd rate it: T15+ for more crude humor, alcohol use, and swearing. Would probably be easier to videogameify than UA.

 

After long deliberation, 3 stars. Wretched hive of scum and villainy it may be, I liked Ankh-Morpork better.

 

[Edit: Removed a note-to-self that I somehow missed.]

Favorite lines:

There's one on the Very Long Quotes Page, as quote 3.

    On page 6,

    Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy seraph of Al-Ybi was once cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the  name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated. Some two thousand Glods later the spell wore off.

    Which is hilarious on its own, but then we get this on page 130:

    When it came to sending palaces to sleep for a hundred years or getting princesses to spin straw into Glod,* no one did it better than Black Aliss.

    *Black Aliss wasn't very good with words either.

    Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling "banana", but didn't know how you stopped.

    Page 186.

Appearances of Death count: 2.

(Endnote: No, Kittens. Death is solid, not liquid.)