Who knew again?

[Fifthfiend]

I add my usual caveat here that it's a Pratchett book and so still relatively good despite the stuff I find terrible it's just that it sets up this "Moist versus the Evil Banker" plot and then the Evil Banker never does anything and sits sort of quietly in the corner going insane while Moist swans around letting the usually seedy vicious violent and cynical denizens of A-M fall head over heels in love with him.

By comparison Going Postal (the first Moist von Lipwig book) had a villain which actively drove the plot, was convincingly portrayed as being at least as cunning as the protagonist, and made at least one credible attempt to end said protagonist's life, all while backdropping Moist's conflict with him with a lot of generalized (and well-warranted!) mistrust, suspicion, conflict and deliberate sabotage by the various people surrounding him. Which all in all I felt made for a much more interesting novel.