Discworld - When the Fat Lady Sings

It's amazing how quickly you can read things when you've turned off the television.  I read Maskerade in two days.

Of course the overarching theme of this book is "The Phantom of the Opera", and yes, I continually have the song "Masquerade" going through my head, but there is still so much more to this book.  There's the concept of three witches.  There's a little mystery.  And there's all the other little bits from operas and musicals that get mentioned.

Death appears several times in the book, but his best scene is his last.

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Recurring Characters and Concepts in this book:

"A Witch should never stand between two mirrors."
Agnes “Perdita X. Dream” Nitt

Ankh-Morpork

Black Aliss

Cable Street Particulars
Corporal Detritus, AM City Watch

Corporal Nobby Nobbs, AM City Watch

Death

Elm Street
Five exclamation points

Granny Esemerelda Weatherwax

Greebo

Lancre

Magrat Garlick, Queen

Millie Hopwood

Mother Dismass

Mr. Crisplock, Engraver

Nanny Gytha Ogg
Scumble

Seamstresses' Guild

Shawn Ogg

Thatcher the Carter

The Dreadful Bend in the Road / Deadman’s Curve

The Hedgehog Song

The Opera House

The Ramtops

The Shades

The Venturi family

Thomas Goatberger
Tinker the Tinker

Two Shirts
Verence II, King

Violet Frottidge