“I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.” This starts the relationship of Death and his new apprentice, Mort, which in French means death. When Mort was looking for a job, he went down to his town’s apprentice fair, but he didn’t seem to appeal to anybody because he wasn’t picked up until 11:59 pm by a man made of bones with blue, fiery eyes - Death.

From then on Death and Mort start their work together helping people to the afterlife. Death doesn’t kill people he just arrives, and when Death puts his scythe through someone, Mort gets pretty upset. Death explains it’s not his fault it’s all up to fate. Eventually Mort starts to do Death’s job becoming more and more like Death. He meets people as he travels the Discworld using the company horse. Everything goes well until he finds somebody who doesn’t want to die.

This book contains a lot of metaphors, symbols and love, especially because of one of the main characters is the personification of Death. This makes some parts of the book a little hard to understand, but I have to admit,  the humor is very clever. A lot of the things that take place in this book are hard for Mort to understand, but in the end, he becomes the best version of himself.