I Read Books: Soul Music

Soul Music

Death takes a break for reasons that are not especially clear (what’s it all about, really?) His granddaughter* Susan, an orphan at a modern school that doesn’t believe in superstition, finds herself thrust into the role.

This is the B-plot however, as Buddy, a musician from a Welsh-flavoured country, goes to Ankh-Morpork, joins up with some other musicians and at the point of death has the spirit of “Music With Rocks In It” take over. In classic Discworld style several decades of Rock n’ Roll and pop music shenanigans take over everyone for a couple of weeks.

Several good jokes crossing mythology and music, a bit of Death-outside-of-time fantastic weirdness, and a mysterious shop that’s always been there, though it may not have always been there last week.

Read This: A very funny intersection between fantasy and music
Don’ Read This: Puns and sly references to rock and roll do not amuse you

* The child of Death’s apprentice Mort and Ysabell, Death’s adopted daughter. That it makes no sense (Being Death is heritable?) is simply part of the nevertheless rigorously funny nonsense of the novel.