Having just finished this today, I think I can see why it won the Carnegie Medal.
It isn't as transparently funny as his other Discworld books, but that just makes the message clearer.
Here's an excerpt. It's betweeen Rat Catcher 2 and Keith:
"This is inhuman!"
"No, it's very human. It's extremely human. There isn't a beast in the world that'd do it to another living thing, but your poisons do it to rats every day. Now tell me about the rats in the cages."
Oh, and the rat king thing? Disturbing.
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