He’s a complex character.Ī general trend in Discworld is that in the later books the number of quick jokes and puns in the text goes down, while Pratchett’s skill in storytelling goes up. A real Pratchettian hero in that he is grounded, smart and angry inside. The Patrician is cunning and practical, Granny Weatherwax uses headology to mess with people, and Vimes is like that too. Most of Pratchett’s best characters understand the world better than those around them. The tension is rising in Ankh-Morpork and the secret police is overstepping their boundaries. The story is a bit like Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, complete with revolutions and street urchins. Another reason why you can’t just dive into this book without being familiar with the watchmen. Vimes’s trip back in time shows us a lot of Ankh-Morporkian history and especially about the watch and the early days of Vimes, Colon and human-like thing known as Nobbs. In the Discworld universe, however, that means we meet Lu-Tze the History Monk, one of Pratchett’s finest creations. I’m not too fond of time travel shenanigans.
But he wasn’t that fond of that future before he accidentally left it, so this is where (or when) he has to make a choice. But then a magical accident happens and he is flung back in time to the days of his first job as a watchman, and he’s forced to tackle the streets if he wants to save the future that he just came from. He’s a watchman with street smarts, but he’s never on the streets anymore and this worries him. I could never really pin down Vimes as a character (but neither could Ankh-Morpork’s Assassination Guild), but in this story he shows what a good down-to-earth guy he is. The series quietly morphed into a vehicle for character development of Sam Vimes, and the sixth book focuses a lot on Vimes and his identity crisis. Vimes match up with Lady Sybil and was given a royal title by the Patrician. First, we saw the Watch recruit new officers from other species, like Angua the first werewolf and Detritus the first Troll. Night Watch is the sixth novel in the City Watch subseries, and a lot of development has preceded it. With Night Watch, I think it is no longer possible to say that you can just start anywhere in the Discworld series and jump right in.
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