Mort

This is a story about Death and his new apprentice, Mort. For me, the Discworld's Death is fine in small doses. This book is perhaps too large a dose, although it's quite a good book and there are some good laughs in it. It's only the 4th Discworld book, and Pratchett is still funny, although Death is inherently a rather sombre subject.

I enjoy the early part of the story more. Then Mort starts taking over Death's Duty, and makes rather a mess of it, which I don't enjoy so much.

The Goodreads blurb says that Mort falls in love with Ysabell. In fact, she gradually falls in love with him, while he seems more interested in Princess Keli. But it all works out in the end, and we get a happy ending, for which I'm grateful.

The book is worth at least three stars, but I still feel reluctant to give it four, because there are only isolated bits of it that I actively enjoy.