Finished reading: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett 📚

The Light Fantastic picks up exactly where The Colour of Magic left off: the wizard Rincewind and the tourist Twoflower are in serious trouble. Beyond their personal predicament, it turns out the entire Discworld is facing an existential threat.

While dodging both general and personal dangers, Rincewind and Twoflower encounter trolls and join forces with the legendary Hero, Cohen the Barbarian. Tales of Cohen’s heroic deeds have been told for decades, so naturally, the man himself turns out to be 87 years old. Still, he gets a bit offended if fewer than five enemies attack him at once — after all, life gets boring without a challenge.

In this book, Sir Terry Pratchett seems to have reined in his ideas a bit, resulting in a more coherent story than the first one. That said, I still preferred The Colour of Magic, since the whole “saving the world” plot in The Light Fantastic felt a bit tacked on. Still, it wasn’t a bad read by any means.