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jaceyTerry Pratchett: I Shall Wear Midnight
Tiffany Aching #4, 2010
I love Pratchett's Discworld and Tiffany Aching is one of his most endearing characters, a young proto-witch who lives in 'the chalk' where people keep sheep and life is simple... until the Nac Mac Feegles, the Wee Free Men get involved. In this, the fourth Tiffany book, she's already doing the regular duties of a witch, (you know, cutting old ladies' toenails, bending for them as can't bend and wiping for them as can't twist) though still in her teens. It's a cross between being a district nurse and a family guidance counsellor with very little actual witching involved but a lot of headology.
But something's stirring, something nasty, that's insinuating itself into people's minds... something that tells them a witch, any witch, is Not To Be Trusted. Tiffany fears it's All Her Fault because she drew the attention of the thing when she kissed the Wintersmith, so it's up to her to deal with it because she's a witch and that's what witches do. They deal with what's in front of them when no one else will.
This is a beautifully crafted book, economical but thoughtful, everything you've come to expect from Pratchett, and it brings Tiffany's story to a well-rounded conclusion. I hope it's not the last we see of her, but if it is, it's a satisfying end. Highly recommended.
Tiffany Aching #4, 2010
I love Pratchett's Discworld and Tiffany Aching is one of his most endearing characters, a young proto-witch who lives in 'the chalk' where people keep sheep and life is simple... until the Nac Mac Feegles, the Wee Free Men get involved. In this, the fourth Tiffany book, she's already doing the regular duties of a witch, (you know, cutting old ladies' toenails, bending for them as can't bend and wiping for them as can't twist) though still in her teens. It's a cross between being a district nurse and a family guidance counsellor with very little actual witching involved but a lot of headology.
But something's stirring, something nasty, that's insinuating itself into people's minds... something that tells them a witch, any witch, is Not To Be Trusted. Tiffany fears it's All Her Fault because she drew the attention of the thing when she kissed the Wintersmith, so it's up to her to deal with it because she's a witch and that's what witches do. They deal with what's in front of them when no one else will.
This is a beautifully crafted book, economical but thoughtful, everything you've come to expect from Pratchett, and it brings Tiffany's story to a well-rounded conclusion. I hope it's not the last we see of her, but if it is, it's a satisfying end. Highly recommended.
