The other thing is there’s a character with an obvious stutter who is portrayed as being grateful for other people interrupting to guess his next word for him, and then the stutter is magically cured at the end of the book. There’s also a comment about weight loss that technically fit with the moment but was uncomfortable to read and really unnecessary. This stands out as a book with several canonically fat characters but it does not equally mention when characters are thin, leaving the impression that fatness is strange and noteworthy. I must briefly review a few caveats, however. I liked it and I’m looking forward to later developments in this slice of Discworld. The cadence of the physical journey and the mental transformation blends together into a well-paced story.
Most of the characters start out with some sexist assumptions about how things ought to work, and the point of the story is them realizing the shape of those assumptions and questioning their validity in the face of a child whose existence refutes them absolutely. The narrator knows more than the characters in an absolute sense, but consistently uses that knowledge to provide humor and context.
The narrative style is wry and witty, the unnamed narrator assuming that the reader is from our world and not Discworld, which provides space for funny comparisons, metaphors, and other observations. EQUAL RITES is the origin story of Discworld’s first female wizard, and her journey to grudging acceptance in magical society.
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