"Pratchett's fantastic imagination and satirical wit are on full display." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"As always, Pratchett's latest Discworld yarn is funny, fast-paced, the kind of satire that explores serious issues while making readers love it." - Booklist
"Funny, poignant, complicated and character-driven." - Locus
"Imgenious, brilliant and hilarious." - Washington Post
"Pratchett, ever inventive, offers up his usual fun and games with typography and footnotes, a full complement of parody, word-play and swift allusion. . . . But Thud! moves from a comedy of multi-culti Ankh-Morpork manners into a pungent exploration of prejudice and dread, hypocrisy and rage. For all its magic carriage rides, technomancy and gloriously absurd transfigurations, on Discworld, the death of innocents (and innocence) is never cause for laughter." - New York Newsday
"Terry Pratchett, whose dozens of novels already have a gazillion fans, needs to testimony from me, of course, but if there's anyone who's never read one of Pratchett's Discworld novels, you have a real treat in store in Thud! . . . What's delightful here are Pratchett's riffs on what's occurring in Ankh-Morpork (which bear more than a sneaking resemblance to events we're living through), the puns and other wordplays that fill the pages, and the whole wacky realness of the world he's invented and played with lo! these many years and amassed, quite rightly, lo! these many readers, including me." - Nancy Pearl
"The usual quick-moving, amusing and entertaining Pratchett tale. Pratchett has never shied away from using his settings and characters to offer commentary on the world, and [THUD!] is no different . . . . [Pratchett]'s his usual brilliant self here -- sarcastic, ironic, and just laugh-out-loud funny." - Associated Press
"One of the darker Discworld tales, Thud! does not disappoint." - Sunday Express (London)
"A delight from beginning to end." - Fantasy & Science Fiction