The main characters are Rincewind and Twoflower. This doesn’t feel so much like a coherent plot as a series of incidents that introduce us to places and characters. After that little hiccup the rest was a very easy story to get along with although the plot is a little jumpy. I confess that it took me a little while to get into this one, I don’t know why exactly, but I swear that I must have gone back to the beginning at least four times before I finally got on board. Like most first books this is a good introduction, it gives you a feel for the world, it introduces a couple of characters that I understand pop up again throughout the series and it demonstrates the madcap, quirky humour so you can get an idea if this will be something for you or not. As starts to series go this is kind of what I anticipated and a number of people had also mentioned to keep my expectations in check for this one as it isn’t the best that Discworld has to offer. So, The Colour of Magic is our first read and to be honest this is definitely a book where forewarned is forearmed. Today is my review for the first book in the Discworld series and the first step on a journey that Louise over at Lou’s Book Stuff and I agreed to undertake together whereby we read the entire Discworld series in order.
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