This is the third one of the Watch series I have read. (I didn't follow the publishing order! That is why I am now catching up with the earlier books in the publishing order) Pratchett has always done well, in my opinion, in the Watch series. The love-hate relationship between man and their home (mainly, Sam Vimes and Havelock Vetinari) feels so genuine and therefore quite moving. There is much more depth of characters and themes in the Watch series than in the Wizards series too. The careful knitting of the relationships between characters is also awesome. The enemy-to-friend relationship between the mutually loathing species are so. beautiful. aw. Also Pterry really did good in the suspension in the sort of detective stories, somehow. This may be a premature conclusion though, considering I've only read two books which are detective stories, Men at Arms and Guards Guards. (I particularly like the part when Detritus deduced the final answer of universe. It goes really well with 42, too.)