YMMV / The Shepherd's Crown

• Ass Pull: The goblin that the Elves capture early in the book somehow manages to pass through the gate more than once with pockets full of pieces of iron, which he later uses to escape his captors by throwing them in the elves faces. Why the elves didn't search him for weapons is left unexplained.
  • Elves are psychopathic glamour-projectors. They might underestimate a member of a species who are commonly thought of as being meek, hapless, and cowardly?
• Broken Base: Being the very last Discworld book, being published after Sir Terry's passing, it was bound to be this. Fans are split on whether it is the series going out with a bang, a whimper, or somewhere in-between.
• Crosses the Line Twice: "I IS PROBIBLY DEAD."
  • One that is exclusive to the French translation: since death is a female noun but Death is a male character, every book he features in contains a note clearing that up, often including a joke (such as suggesting the reader to read the 35 previous books); this time it reads "Alright, we remind you once more that Death is a male but this is the last time!".
• Moral Event Horizon: Peaseblossom doesn't do a single nice thing in the entire book, but what really cements him as unforgivable is when he murders Nightshade as she tries to get the elves to turn back.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Elf King appears in two scenes, yet leaves more of an impression than most of the other characters in the book.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Geoffrey could have helmed an entire book in his desire to be a witch, made all the more difficult by his being a man trying to establish himself in an otherwise entirely female profession. While he is taken on as Tiffany's "backhouse boy," this is set up as an excuse for him to do witch's work without having to explain to the people about a male witch, and he winds up only having a few scenes. Or, at least in a different book, considering that Agnes Nitt had a book only after a few lines in a previous "Lancre Witch" book; but Terry Prachett's death put a crimp in any (potential) plans.

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