He’s a watchman with street smarts, but he’s never on the streets anymore and this worries him. I could never really pin down Vimes as a character (but neither could Ankh-Morpork’s Assassination Guild), but in this story he shows what a good down-to-earth guy he is. The series quietly morphed into a vehicle for character development of Sam Vimes, and the sixth book focuses a lot on Vimes and his identity crisis. Vimes match up with Lady Sybil and was given a royal title by the Patrician. First, we saw the Watch recruit new officers from other species, like Angua the first werewolf and Detritus the first Troll. Night Watch is the sixth novel in the City Watch subseries, and a lot of development has preceded it. With Night Watch, I think it is no longer possible to say that you can just start anywhere in the Discworld series and jump right in.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |