Monstrous Regiment (2014, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
128 pages
English language
Published Nov. 26, 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
In the twenty-eighth Discworld novel the Discworld goes to war.It began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time... And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother.But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them.All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well... They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of... the Monstrous Regiment.
This is another book of women disguising themselves as men to go fight their enemies BUT this one is hilarious because it’s Pratchett. It’s hard to put down. It’s also a great critique of the military complex. Spot on, as usual. If you’re familiar with Discworld, Vimes is in this one, and dear old Death makes an appearance.
