It starts with whispers.
Then someone picks up a stone.
Finally, the fires begin.
When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . .
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Jun 23, 2011
Dan
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Jan 25, 2011
Mariel
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I didn't become a Terry Pratchett fan until 2009. My twin sister told me numerous times that it would be a very good idea for me to read him. I do listen to my twin, it's just that particular urgency to heed her advice hinges on many factors: did she tell me too much (in the interest of fairness, I do this more to her than she does to me), was I feeling a loner and left out of hyper enthuasism... Probably that last one. Everything good about Terry Pratchet you've probably been told or read (or s
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Dec 09, 2011
AnEyeSpy
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In "I Shall Wear Midnight" by (Sir!2009) Terry Pratchett, witch Tiffany, at 16, wants to don black only when old. Yet, for her home Chalk, she already decides life or death, such as when a drunk villager attempts suicide after beating his pregnant daughter to birth. She's wise beyond years, even advising on "passionate parts" as fun fact rather than salacious description, so the rating is not x, restricted.
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Oct 29, 2010
Carol
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Terry Pratchett is a genius! This book is the fourth in the Tiffany Aching Adventures, and my favorite so far, I think. Tiffany is a sixteen-year-old witch, self-assured and very wise beyond her years, yet still down to earth (or, in her case, chalk) and still sixteen. She is once again joined by her small, blue, kilted, ale-drinking, fist-fighting, hygienically challenged, oft-invisible clan of Nac Mac Feegles who provide the story's comic relief. Her nemesis this time is the Cunning Man--the p
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May 02, 2011
Vicki
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I would read the phone book if Terry Pratchett wrote it. I have read all his books; including the ones for kids and young adults. I've given away a fortune in his YA and kids' books at schools.
I am only a short way into the book but it is already filled with Pratchett's signature wit and (yes) wisdom. No one uses the English language like Pratchett. If I sound like FanGirl, it's because I am, absolutely. Pratchett makes Tiffany "feel" like a real 16-year old girl; with all More...
I am only a short way into the book but it is already filled with Pratchett's signature wit and (yes) wisdom. No one uses the English language like Pratchett. If I sound like FanGirl, it's because I am, absolutely. Pratchett makes Tiffany "feel" like a real 16-year old girl; with all More...
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Dec 06, 2011
Clodia
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This book started off in a deceptively simple fashionin which, initially, I felt rather too much was being told rather than shown. This simplicity soon, however, gave way to stark and sober horror, as young witch Tiffany is faced with an everyday situation of family violence and abuse. The suggestion of violence, ignorance and cruelty is a keynote of the book, as Tiffany faces an enemy darker and more real than any Queen of the Fairies - an embodiment of those worst aspects of human nature that
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Apr 17, 2011
Lightreads
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This is more of the same for this subseries – which is a good thing! More adolescent witch adventures, more growing up too fast, more dry humor with teeth underneath.
Critics go on about how magic in fantasy novels is a metaphor for political power or social power or insert power here. Which is usually a really unsatisfying reading to me because fantasy novel magic is so often inborn, inexplicable, a random or genetic gift. Which is a good metaphor for social power, often, but it’s no More...
Critics go on about how magic in fantasy novels is a metaphor for political power or social power or insert power here. Which is usually a really unsatisfying reading to me because fantasy novel magic is so often inborn, inexplicable, a random or genetic gift. Which is a good metaphor for social power, often, but it’s no More...
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Mar 27, 2011
Rachel
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Yeah Terry Pratchett!
This was a welcome visit back with a good friend.
Pratchett can't write fast enough for me, but I every time i get to read another of his books, I feel anticipation, happiness and satiety.
Gushing aside, I very much enjoy Pratchett's writing style. His characters and events are full of surprises. People (or feegles) act in a predictable way up to a point, but it always seems as if everyone's actions are driven by their individual thoughts, feelings, More...
This was a welcome visit back with a good friend.
Pratchett can't write fast enough for me, but I every time i get to read another of his books, I feel anticipation, happiness and satiety.
Gushing aside, I very much enjoy Pratchett's writing style. His characters and events are full of surprises. People (or feegles) act in a predictable way up to a point, but it always seems as if everyone's actions are driven by their individual thoughts, feelings, More...
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Jan 27, 2011
Jen3n
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I still feel weird putting these under the heading of "children’s books." They aren't, really, and never have been. Even when the main character was just a ten year old girl.
So. This is the last of the Tiffany Aching books and the last time we will ever hear of Granny Weatherwax or Nanny Ogg ever again, thanks to Mr. Pratchett's disease. I am given to understand that most of this book was, by necessity, dictated.
And it's not a bad book. Quite good, given th More...
So. This is the last of the Tiffany Aching books and the last time we will ever hear of Granny Weatherwax or Nanny Ogg ever again, thanks to Mr. Pratchett's disease. I am given to understand that most of this book was, by necessity, dictated.
And it's not a bad book. Quite good, given th More...
Dec 20, 2010
Peterb
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I Shall Wear Midnight is Terry Pratchett's final book in the Tiffany Aching series. While clever, thoughtful, and well-constructed, it suffers from the same problem Pratchett has had in his other recent books: he has fallen too much in love with his characters to truly hurt them. Compared to the latent menace that suffused, for example, The Wee Free Men, we never feel here that Tiffany is at any risk that she can't overcome through prodigious application of witch-bourne moxie. This is a draw
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Jan 07, 2011
Chris
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I Shall Wear Midnight is supposedly that last novel about the young witch from the Chalk, Tiffany. In some ways that knowledge colors the book.
Tiffany has done with her education and is back home serving as the Chalk's witch. Sadly, strange things seem to be happening, more than just what happens with an senient cheese named Horace, a lawyer who is frog (but who can be paid in beetles) and the Feegles around.
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Tiffany has done with her education and is back home serving as the Chalk's witch. Sadly, strange things seem to be happening, more than just what happens with an senient cheese named Horace, a lawyer who is frog (but who can be paid in beetles) and the Feegles around.
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Feb 02, 2012
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Aug 06, 2011
Though set in the Disc world, this is not a Discworld novel. It's the fourth in the Tiffany Aching series of stories, about the young witch. As such it is classified as a "children's book" but then it is as much a children's book as those of Roald Dahl, J K Rowling or Eoin Colfer. Let's just say, it's a book with a child as the major character but which could equally be read by someone aged 9 as 90.
I have read all of the previous stories and loved them as much as I have loved every More...
I have read all of the previous stories and loved them as much as I have loved every More...
Jan 25, 2012
Jeanette
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"...old magic, magic that didn't need witches, magic that was built into people and the landscape. It concerned things like death, and marriage, and betrothals. And promises that were promises even if there was no one to hear them. And all those things that make people touch wood and never, ever walk under a black cat.
You didn't need to be a witch to understand it. The world around you became more - well, more real and fluid, at those special times." (5)
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You didn't need to be a witch to understand it. The world around you became more - well, more real and fluid, at those special times." (5)
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Jan 15, 2012
kamelin
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5 Sterne für Pratchett und einen Oscar für Aljinovic [german review]
Die kleine große Hexe Tiffany Weh wird erwachsen und muss sich um das Kreideland kümmern. Leichter gesagt als getan, denn eine Hexe zu sein ist kein Kinderspiel. Vielmehr ist Tiff Mädchen für alles: Hier nimmt sie Schmerzen, dort schneidet sie Zehnägel, und an anderer Stelle muss sie einen aufgebrachten Mob daran hindern, einen gewalttätigen Vater zu lynchen, der sein Kind halb tot geprügelt hat. Als wären Tiffanys Tag More...
Die kleine große Hexe Tiffany Weh wird erwachsen und muss sich um das Kreideland kümmern. Leichter gesagt als getan, denn eine Hexe zu sein ist kein Kinderspiel. Vielmehr ist Tiff Mädchen für alles: Hier nimmt sie Schmerzen, dort schneidet sie Zehnägel, und an anderer Stelle muss sie einen aufgebrachten Mob daran hindern, einen gewalttätigen Vater zu lynchen, der sein Kind halb tot geprügelt hat. Als wären Tiffanys Tag More...
Jan 15, 2012
The Bookworms' Lair
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I’ve lost count of the number of books Terry Pratchett has set in his Discworld, this is the fourth book following Tiffany Aching and this almost sixteen Tiffany is very different from her eight year old self in Wee Free Men. She has grown up over the last few books but now she finally becomes a young women as she truly finds her place in her world.
Pratchett has done remarkable job with Tiffany, I’m not sure many old(er) male authors could have written a young girl so convincingly, More...
Pratchett has done remarkable job with Tiffany, I’m not sure many old(er) male authors could have written a young girl so convincingly, More...
Dec 16, 2011
Amy
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Pratchett's fourth—and final—book to feature young witch Tiffany Aching (The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith) is a delight from start to finish. The trademark Pratchett humor is in full force along with the classic elements of a witch, a royal wedding, a royal funeral, a trip to the big city, and an ominous villain. Comic relief comes in the form of frequent appearance by the Nac Mac Feegle (who would not be out of place in a farcical miniproductMore...
Dec 16, 2011
Laura
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You have to have a certain type of humor to enjoy Terry Pratchett. His humor is dry with many plays on words and puns. I adore his books and his sense of humor often leads me to groan with joy.
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking up information on his newest book, Snuff, when I realized a new Tiffany Aching book had been released. Yay! Even better, the school library already had a copy of I Shall Wear Midnight. I'm buying a copy of both books but I had to read Tiffany's story ASAP.
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A couple of weeks ago, I was looking up information on his newest book, Snuff, when I realized a new Tiffany Aching book had been released. Yay! Even better, the school library already had a copy of I Shall Wear Midnight. I'm buying a copy of both books but I had to read Tiffany's story ASAP.
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Nov 30, 2011
Sue
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Fourth in the Discworld sub-series about Tiffany Aching, the teenage witch of the 'Chalk'. Intended for rather older teenagers than the other books about Tiffany, this book starts in rather a disturbing way with an episode about extreme domestic violence.
Tiffany, who mostly does midwifery and other medical work, finds herself becoming unpopular and mistrusted... and learns that, almost in an echo of the first Harry Potter book (and similar to 'Hat full of Sky', second in the series More...
Tiffany, who mostly does midwifery and other medical work, finds herself becoming unpopular and mistrusted... and learns that, almost in an echo of the first Harry Potter book (and similar to 'Hat full of Sky', second in the series More...
Nov 20, 2011
Kiera
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Genre: fantasy, young adult, growing pains
Summary: This is the last book in the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett. Tiffany has progressed from nearly nine at the beginning of the series to almost 16 in this book. Tiffany has to face the biggest trials as a witch, facing an ancient evil, getting over broken dreams and doing what she is meant to be doing.
Response: I loved this book. I truly did. Now, most of the time, I hate series because I feel it's just another excuse to make More...
Summary: This is the last book in the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett. Tiffany has progressed from nearly nine at the beginning of the series to almost 16 in this book. Tiffany has to face the biggest trials as a witch, facing an ancient evil, getting over broken dreams and doing what she is meant to be doing.
Response: I loved this book. I truly did. Now, most of the time, I hate series because I feel it's just another excuse to make More...
Nov 15, 2011
Hester
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Tiffany Aching is my hero. Not because she is perfect--she makes a lot of mistakes that affect a lot of people. I admire this sixteen year old so much because after she makes a mistake, she gets up and tries to fix it. She knows she does not deal well with her own weaknesses, and she is in a tough spot, where she always has to understand the big picture. She moves past her own resentments, angers, and insecurities to try to do the best she can at thankless tasks.
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Nov 14, 2011
Kristin
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This is book four in the Tiffany Aching Series. Recommend to be read in order.
Pratchett’s books are a delight to read. Granted, there are some that grab my fancy more than others, but the witticism, the insight into the quirky parts of the human psyche, and the dry (and not so dry) sense of humor is just outstanding.
However, this was one that I thought got a bit…long. Once again, our young heroine seems to be at the center of Big Nasty Things. A Big Nasty Thing is More...
Pratchett’s books are a delight to read. Granted, there are some that grab my fancy more than others, but the witticism, the insight into the quirky parts of the human psyche, and the dry (and not so dry) sense of humor is just outstanding.
However, this was one that I thought got a bit…long. Once again, our young heroine seems to be at the center of Big Nasty Things. A Big Nasty Thing is More...
Oct 05, 2011
Marni
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This is the first Tiffany Aching book that I read before reading it with the kids (the last one had me worried in a few spots, so I wanted to be sure about this one). While I enjoyed it, I won't be reading it with the kids. And I'm sad about that, because I really like Tiffany! But she is involved in a few situations, especially right at the very beginning of the book, that are too heavy for them (such as an unmarried pregnant daughter severely beaten by her father, and Tiffany has to take ca
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Aug 18, 2011
Graham
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For once, Terry does not offer much in the way of back story. Either you know who Tiffany Aching is (and other characters) or you do not. If you chose this as your first TP read, you may be confused as to who's who in the zoo! You really need to be familiar with The Wee Free Men and all the witches from way back.
ISWM is also a much darker novel for TP - Tiffany is considerably matured and other characters have also changed quite a bit since we last saw them.
ISWM is hard-hitti More...
ISWM is also a much darker novel for TP - Tiffany is considerably matured and other characters have also changed quite a bit since we last saw them.
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Jul 31, 2011
Mothwing
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Compared to other Witch books, it struck me as a very patchy, with plot and cohesion not always stringently followed through. Many of the main characters were introduced, but I still couldn't really care about them by the end of the book. The love stories appeared to be rather stuck on, as though coming-of-age stories about women always mean two things - coming to terms with misogyny and finding love, and that doesn't convince me at all.
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Jul 30, 2011
Though this is supposed to be a book for younger readers, I enjoyed it from start to finish. As with pretty much all Mr Pratchett's work, the dialogue was very dry and witty and on more than a few occasions I found myself laughing out loud.
This book follows the adventures of Tiffany Aching, a witch who in the Discworld tradition of witchcraft works as nurse and midwife among other things.
She's aided in her work by the Nac Mac Feegle (also known as Pictsies, the Wee Free Men, the Little Men, 'Per More...
This book follows the adventures of Tiffany Aching, a witch who in the Discworld tradition of witchcraft works as nurse and midwife among other things.
She's aided in her work by the Nac Mac Feegle (also known as Pictsies, the Wee Free Men, the Little Men, 'Per More...
Jul 26, 2011
Jared
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Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. I would love to meet him and shake his hand, thanking him for nearly single-handedly raising the intelligence-level of modern fantasy and satire. As you read his Discworld books with their deliciously irreverent mythologies and perfectly aimed character descriptions, you get the feeling that this guy has read more books than you could ever read-- and he's remembered all of it.
I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth book in Pratchett's Tiffany More...
I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth book in Pratchett's Tiffany More...
Jul 17, 2011
Lee
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Pratchett-by-numbers, with nothing memorable or engaging to tie the plot around. Characters and subplots are added for no good reason and resolved without the slightest sign of conflict or character change, the antagonist is poorly defined and, in the end, despatched with such ease that it leaves the reader wondering just what the fuss was all about-- if this thing has been the scourge of witches throughout the centuries then the witches can't have been very good at what they do to have been bea
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Jun 23, 2011
Martha
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I really enjoyed this book. Tiffany is growing up, losing some of her bravado, but becoming a better witch and a nicer person. I really liked how she dealt with the non-supernatural "bad guys." I also found the resolution of her storyline with Roland extremely satisfying. She's chosen again and again not to live the stereotyped story, and that follows through.
I also liked the fact that her impetuous action in Wintersmith had consequences beyond the book. She needed to learn More...
I also liked the fact that her impetuous action in Wintersmith had consequences beyond the book. She needed to learn More...
May 21, 2011
Emma
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Review originally posted at EmmaMaree.com
I recently read Terry Pratchett's latest Tiffany Aching/The Wee Free Men series book, "I Shall Wear Midnight".
I love Sir Terry Pratchett's writing, and I wasn't disappointed at all here - the same wonderful mix of humor and wordplay was abundant, alongside the detailed worldbuilding that surrounds the Discworld novels.
It was a lot darker than previous books, though - the story opens with a village riot, and Tiffany More...
I recently read Terry Pratchett's latest Tiffany Aching/The Wee Free Men series book, "I Shall Wear Midnight".
I love Sir Terry Pratchett's writing, and I wasn't disappointed at all here - the same wonderful mix of humor and wordplay was abundant, alongside the detailed worldbuilding that surrounds the Discworld novels.
It was a lot darker than previous books, though - the story opens with a village riot, and Tiffany More...
