If you are like me and read The Color of Magic you were slightly unsatisfied with the ending. It left our two main characters plummeting over the side of the disc with no visible means of escaping with their lives. Sure it was funny, but dang it; I want to know what happens.

            Enter The Light Fantastic the sequel to The Color of Magic and the second book in the long running Discworld series.

            Now you will probably hear me say this a lot in the course of this review; these two books should have been one. The first and second book in this series are like one continuous story, and I wonder why they were two short books when they could easily have been one average sized book.

            The Light Fantastic picks up directly where The Color of Magic left off. I wont tell you how Rincewind and Twoflower escape certain death but I can’t deny that they do in fact escape it.

            What this book does, is finish the ideas started in the first book. Rincewind has always had one of the worlds elder spells lodged in his brain, resulting in his ineptitude for learning other spells. It has plagued him for ages and in this book this little tale is finally finished, in a sense. We also get to see one of the places that the giant space turtle, Great A’tuin, is going. However the only thing the residents of the disc know is that there is a bright red star in the sky that only keeps getting bigger.

            Unfortunately when I read this book, I was bombarded with constant distractions and so it resulted in a lot of confusion and rereading. But even with these problems I still managed to find that same sense humor and magic from the first entry into the series. I was also very pleased to have a lot of the questions I had left over from the first book answered; I figured Terry Pratchett would stretch them over the whole series, yikes.

            So I recommend that you read these two books together, because really, that is how they should be read. I really have no idea where the third book will pick up since this one had a real sense of closure, but I trust Terry Pratchett to come up with a new idea that is just as interesting and humorous.