While I was in Spain I read Terry Pratchett’s Fifth Elephant over time while laying on the beach on all those many occasions. The book is a really good read, as with many of Pratchett’s books this one is about the Ankh-Morpork Watch and this time it’s a tale where Samuel Vimes gets sent on a diplomatic mission to Überworld. The book is really good and all the characters and the dialog are brilliant as always in the Discworld books.
Rating: 4/5

This is the twenty-fourth book in Terry Pratchett’s series on the Discworld–a flat world, supported on the back of four massive elephants riding on the back of a planet-sized turtle, anything hilarious can happen here, and eventually does. When Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork city watch is sent by Lord Vetinari to represent the city at the crowning of the new Dwarvish Low King, he knows something is afoot. Things begin to unravel when murders begin, a duplicate of a Dwarven artifact is stolen, Sergeant Angua disappears, Captain Carrot quits to search for her, and (worst of all) Sergeant Colon is placed in charge of the Watch. Can Sam Vimes unravel the mysteries surrounding him? And, who should he fear most, the werewolves or the vampires?

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