Hogfather by Terry PratchettMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hogfather was one of the novels I tended to avoid, for some reason it didn't quite work for me and only recently have I started to enjoy the TV adaptation. There is no reason it shouldn't be high on the list, it has plenty of Death and Albert and Susan comes into herself along with the Death of Rats and the look into the Assassins Guild and Auditors was certainly world building. The concept of a contract being put on the Hogfather in interesting enough, the idea of negating children's belief in him through old magic is pretty inspired and Death choosing to play the part of the Hogfather is wonderful because the consequences of kids not believing in the Hogfather goes way beyond the delivery of gifts once a year. Overall I'd say it is an average Discworld novel and I think I like the TV adaptation a little more as the story is more compressed and faster paced and that doesn't hurt.
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