Granny Weatherwax is possibly my favourite Discworld character. The witches books are certainly my favourite of the series in general, but I tend to think of Nanny Ogg and Magrat as being the back-up singers of witching in the Ramtops, if you get my drift. In Lords and Ladies they share the spotlight, and it's hugely entertaining. Magrat especially benefits from her rise to queenship, and I really enjoyed the presentation of her as a research witch; it's something I would have liked to have seen more of.

The end battle between Granny and the Queen isn't quite as strong as the one in the previous book, where Granny took on Mrs Gogol and Lily, but you can't have everything, and this is still a book I'm happy to reread over and over.