I almost gave up on this one because I did not like where I thought it was going. Then it took a very weird, but wonderful turn and I was right back with Mr Pratchett. Teppic is not his usual hapless hero. He's a prince who is also a newly minted member of the Assassin's Guild of Ankh-Morpork when his father commits suicide and his diety passes on to his son. Teppic returns to his city trapped in its past with an unhealthy obsession with gods and pyramids. He tries to enact change, but the priest, Dios, thwarts him and he gives in to the building of the biggest, grandest pyramid for his recently deceased father who is haunting his embalming. 

This was where I started to hear the ringing of the "I'm going to be really annoyed" bells. So I skimmed. Then things go a bit crocodile-shaped with the almost completion of the pyramid and the party really got going. 

With every Pratchett book you are guaranteed lots of dry humour, lots of creatively moulded side-characters and a domineering inhuman sidekick (it was a camel here). This is one of the standalone books in the verse and can thus be safely read on its own.