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Jun 07, 2019scribby rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is to fantasy what The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy is to science fiction and what Monty Python is to just about everything. Every single convention of the fantasy genre (and the folklore on which it is based) is hilariously skewered (except dragons and unicorns; there don't seem to be any of those). It is also a keen political and social satire, and while we're at it, a send-up of the whodunit genre. (There is even an occasional serious moment thrown in just for the fun of it.) Great stuff! I'm going to read some of the others in the series -- they don't have to be read in any particular order.