I enjoyed this book, but I feel that Terry Pratchett's last few Discworld books lack what drew me to his work in the first place. Gone are the acerbic, vicious, astute observations, replaced instead with sentimentalism. Some may like this, but I certainly do not. I also felt there was an effort to enforce a certain kind of moral orthodoxy. Though I may agree with Pratchett's position regarding hunting and boorish parents, I would rather there wasn't any moral crusading in a world which was originaly created to lampoon such things. 
 JM