satire

A fantastic follow-up to his first book, Stealing the Dragon. Maleeny does a nice job of being tongue in cheek while still making you believe his characters are in real peril.

I love Terry Pratchett!  His Discworld books are utterly brilliant.  This is the 2nd book in the Discworld series, but they can be read out of order without distress--he's a master of that.  Really, anyone who can read should read these books.  I can't imagine anyone disliking them.  They're that good.

A Discworld saga wherein Death--you know him, rather thin fellow, handy in the scythe department--takes an apprentice, an ordinary boy appropriately named Mort.  Watch as he mucks out Binky's (that would be Death's dread steed) stable, gets to know Death's daughter, and tears the very fabric of reality.