Reading progress update: I've read 83%.

Equal Rites  - Terry Pratchett

Oh, the suspense!! :D

Esk looked at the ring of faces that not even a necrophile could love, faces put together from a fishmonger’s midden, faces picked randomly from things that lurked in deep ocean holes and haunted caves, faces that were not human enough to gloat or leer but had all the menace of a suspiciously v-shaped ripple near an incautious bather. She couldn’t trust them.

 

But she had no choice.