Meanwhile, many other groups have heard about the Auditors' scheme, and have plans to stop them. Lady LeJean spends her time with Jeremy, ensuring the clock is finished properly, but while she is inside a human body she begins to have uncommon, base urges and feelings unknown to Auditors, like cravings for chocolate and feelings of romantic love for Jeremy. The Auditor who does the most work to persuade Jeremy is one particular character, who transforms itself from a deity into a human woman named Lady LeJean. In order to achieve this task, the Auditors manipulate a relatively unstable but talented clockmaker named Jeremy Clockson to build the perfect glass clock, which when it is finished will be so precise that it's workings will have the power to stop time itself.

This, they believe, would give them ample space to fix whatever the humans have broken, and to keep everything tidy and orderly for all eternity, because humans wouldn't be able to move through the world in order to mess everything up. The conflict begins when the Auditors of Reality, the god-like beings who have some control over the workings of the universe, decide that it would be much easier to maintain order if they could freeze time forever.

Thief of Time essentially pits three main adversaries against each other the Monks of History, the Auditors, and Death fight on a primordial level in an attempt to maintain the order of the universe, while humans are thrown into the mix in an often comically ignorant way while these powers argue around them. The second thread has the feeling of a kung-fu or martial arts movie, and follows Lu-Tze, a member of the mysterious religious organization the History Monks, as he leads an apprentice named Lobsang Ludd on an important mission. One thread follows a clockmaker named Jeremy Clockson who is hired by the Auditors of Reality, villainous god-like beings who carry throughout the series, to build a perfect glass clock that has the power to stop time. Within the Discworld universe, Thief of Time is the fifth “Death” novel, which follows a personified Death character who interferes with the Discworld universe. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett is a fantasy novel for teenagers and adults, and the twenty-sixth book in the acclaimed Discworld series.

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