Toby's Reviews > Reaper Man

Just finished this whilst running and all the wonderful insightful thoughts I'd had about it over the past few weeks escape me as I sit exhausted yet happy. Reaper Man is the second novel that focuses on Death. This time he has been shorn of his anthropomorphic designation and sentenced to a short life on the Disc as punishment for becoming too individual. Those pesky Auditors make their Discworld debut (as do a whole raft of wonderfully fun creations including many new species in Reg Shoe's Fresh Start Club for the not actually dead) and set about ridding the Disc of its meddling Death. It doesn't go as planned but it takes a certain talent to tell a story about death and dying and have the readers cheering for the figure with the scythe come the end and the journey with Bill Door is one of my favourites in the Discworld universe so far. Of course it wouldn't be an early Discworld novel without a simultaneous plot going on that ties in to the main story in some way, this time the recently invented wizard faculty get to raucously investigate what is happening to the world now that nothing is dying, including the suddenly full of beans Windle Poons, wizard - DECEASED.