I've bounced around the Discworld before. I started where one may be expected the start things: at the beginning. Which apparently seems not to be the best of choices. Don't get me wrong. They were enjoyable, but a little rough in parts. And I've read a few other titles as book club choices and seasonal recomendations have lead me. Again, those have been good, but I feel a little lost by not having started those at the begining.

So here I am at the eighth book of the whole thing, but the first book of its own subseries. Where the only things familiar to me are the city itself and one librarian. And I really enjoyed it. I really like this very interesting collection of characters that make up the City Guard. I like the way the author plays with the tropes of a standard fantasy plot: dealing with an unexpected dragon.

The only problem I had is the formatting of the edition I was reading. I'm uncertain if the original print editions are just one long story all the way through. But the version I read had no breaks. No chapter breaks, no scene breaks, no way to divide up the story. So a scene transition would occur, jumping the reader from one character to another, and at first that takes a person out of the story. Over time, you adapt. But when you're starting, it's a little rough.

I feel like this will be the sub-series that I will try to make the best effort to finish.