Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the c...
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May 25, 2007
Res
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The third book involving Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegles -- the one where Tiffany dances with the Wintersmith and gets herself into the middle of the ancient romance of summer and winter.
I love the witches, and I love the Feegles, and I love Tiffany, and it's always a pleasure to spend time with them. And yay for Roland growing up. And I loved the subplot involving Miss Treason and the slight improvement in Annagramma.
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I love the witches, and I love the Feegles, and I love Tiffany, and it's always a pleasure to spend time with them. And yay for Roland growing up. And I loved the subplot involving Miss Treason and the slight improvement in Annagramma.
Having said that, I had serious problems with t More...
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Feb 02, 2009
Marian
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Very amusing read with our 13 yr old junior witch heroine. Funny cast of other witches, small blue guys and elementals-
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Nov 15, 2010
Maurizio
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Tiffany Aching cresce, e compie tredici anni. Da buona preadolescente, si mette immediatamente nei casini, facendo in modo che l'Inverno si innamori di lei, scambiandola per l'Estate. In questo libro a metà tra il Discworld per ragazzi e quello standard, la storia parte piuttosto lentamente, e la prima metà del libro non è nulla di eccezionale. Fortunatamente nella seconda parte ingrana molto bene, e Pratchett, oltre che fare vedere come al solito il mondo in maniera diversa da quella a cui siam
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Jan 19, 2009
Linda
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Wintersmith is the third tale in the story of Tiffany Aching who found, at the age of 9, that she had inherited her grandmother’s legacy as a witch. Tiffany is now almost 13 and it is time for her to learn how to use her special abilities in the world as she finds herself in the house of Miss Treason who will guide her in her lessons. Oh, waily, waily, waily! Tiffany has attracted the attention of the spirit of winter himself and soon finds her likeness being etched in everything from the frost
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Dec 26, 2008
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Wintersmith
Terry Pratchett
Doubleday
ISBN 978-0-385-60984-5
Tiffany Aching is almost thirteen, she live on Disc World, and is a trainee witch. Tiffany has voices in her head that help her, and us, see what is really going on. She is also frequently surrounded by very small blue men, they are called the Nac Mac Feegles. They have a duty of care over Tiffany, although they would not necessarily express it like that, so when ever she's in trouble they are watching o More...
Terry Pratchett
Doubleday
ISBN 978-0-385-60984-5
Tiffany Aching is almost thirteen, she live on Disc World, and is a trainee witch. Tiffany has voices in her head that help her, and us, see what is really going on. She is also frequently surrounded by very small blue men, they are called the Nac Mac Feegles. They have a duty of care over Tiffany, although they would not necessarily express it like that, so when ever she's in trouble they are watching o More...
Nov 11, 2011
Shovelmonkey1
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I read this a long time ago, but not as long ago as I read all the preceding Pratchetts. Yes. I love all things Pratchett (mostly) and have accumulated an extensive Pratchett archive since about the age of thirteen. Sadly most of these books have been tucked away in my parents attic for the last twelve years but the wonder of encountering the Discworld has never been forgotten.
I've read all of the Tiffany Aching series, including the Wee Free Men. Thinking back now, I can't really r More...
I've read all of the Tiffany Aching series, including the Wee Free Men. Thinking back now, I can't really r More...
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Nov 07, 2011
Sara
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A perfect autumnal read to get you ready for the winter ahead and make the current weather seem so much warmer.
Confession time: there are several Discworld books that I haven't bothered to read because I didn't think they would interest me. Having now read one of them, because it was given to me for free, I can't imagine why I thought I wouldn't enjoy them. Perhaps it is because they are billed as for young adults and I found The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents to be amusing More...
Confession time: there are several Discworld books that I haven't bothered to read because I didn't think they would interest me. Having now read one of them, because it was given to me for free, I can't imagine why I thought I wouldn't enjoy them. Perhaps it is because they are billed as for young adults and I found The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents to be amusing More...
Aug 25, 2011
David
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My experience of the later Discworld novels has tended to be that they’re OK, but don’t match up to the best of the series – not in terms of their humour, conception, or the incisiveness with which they treat their themes. Wintersmith continues that trend. This is Pratchett’s fourth YA Discworld novel, and the third to centre on young witch-in-training Tiffany Aching. Her predicament n the present book is that, having joined in on impulse with a traditional dance to usher in winter, Tiffany now
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Jul 10, 2011
Lee
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A competent entry into the Discworld annals without ever hitting the philosophical or humourous heights of the best Pratchett books. It's possible to see the seams in this one, and many moments seem simply rehashes of popular Pratchett tropes-- Horace the Cheese is no more than The Luggage, Roland is strongly reminiscent of Verence II and even Tiffany Aching herself sends out too many echoes of Magrat Garlick and Agnes Nitt to be particularly fresh. The plot is fairly standard innocent-sticks-he
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Jun 05, 2011
Kimberley
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A wonderful an lovely read, Pratchett like we love and like him.
Terry Pratchett is in my opinion one of the best authors ever. When I start to read a Terry Pratchett book I never now, if it is as good as the last one or even better, because they are all just amazing and awesome. And I've read more than two, so I know what I'm talking about :)
It is always unfair, when you compare another author to Terry Pratchett, because you know, even before you start the comparison, how it More...
Terry Pratchett is in my opinion one of the best authors ever. When I start to read a Terry Pratchett book I never now, if it is as good as the last one or even better, because they are all just amazing and awesome. And I've read more than two, so I know what I'm talking about :)
It is always unfair, when you compare another author to Terry Pratchett, because you know, even before you start the comparison, how it More...
Feb 15, 2011
This was a very interesting book. I got hooked while reading it, but I didn't think a great deal of it after I finished. Pratchett did a good job developing the plot, but it was a little "out there" for me. There were too many creatures introduced. It was hard to keep them separate. There were humans, witches, gods, godesses, elementals, ogres, and feegles. Feegle were little blue guys that had an Irish accent and helped the main character. There were so many names that it was hard to
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Oct 28, 2010
Chibineko
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I always try to space out my Terry Pratchett books now that I'm finally catching up to the latest books, so when I saw that the newest Tiffany book would be coming out, I decided it was time. Needless to say, this book once again reaffirmed my love for Pratchett.
Since there's so many reviews out there already, I'm going to skip the description paragraph. If you're a Terry Pratchett & Tiffany Aching fan, you'll know what this book is about. If you aren't aware of either, I really do s More...
Since there's so many reviews out there already, I'm going to skip the description paragraph. If you're a Terry Pratchett & Tiffany Aching fan, you'll know what this book is about. If you aren't aware of either, I really do s More...
Jul 09, 2010
Sassy_latham
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This book is once again a brilliant book. It picks up from the hat full of sky.
Tiffany is starting to gain powers and has once again been asigned to a different witch. This witch gives her a chance to watch the dance. Little does tiffany know that there are more perticipants than she can see already dancing. Tiffany sees a place in the dance where the joker is supposed to be. The place is "empty". Joining in the dance, ignoring her witches warnin, she follows her feet and t More...
Tiffany is starting to gain powers and has once again been asigned to a different witch. This witch gives her a chance to watch the dance. Little does tiffany know that there are more perticipants than she can see already dancing. Tiffany sees a place in the dance where the joker is supposed to be. The place is "empty". Joining in the dance, ignoring her witches warnin, she follows her feet and t More...
May 09, 2010
Laurie
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‘Wintersmith’ is the third book about Tiffany Aching, a young witch in training on Discworld. Now 13, she faces an elemental force. Tiffany joined in dancing in the Black Morris dance on the autumn equinox, and for one brief instant, danced with winter. Winter has taken a shine to her, and has come courting. If she doesn’t get the Wintersmith to stop courting her, summer will never come, and the world will freeze to death. She doesn’t have to face him alone, however. She has the aid of several o
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Jan 02, 2012
Pikachu
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Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Terry Pratchett…but his new works just can't hold a candle to the older ones. I suspect that this is because his older books are focused on world building and catching the audience's attention, while the latter books rely more on inside-joke-based slapstick. This trend carries over to the Tiffany Aching miniseries. Tiffany is a young witch with a lot of promise, who is watched over by Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax. Currently, she is serving under a very eccentric wom
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Oct 29, 2009
Moira
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I'm trying to write reviews again, instead of just ratings and status updates -- my problem is I always want to write The Exhaustive Review, and so wind up writing none. UH WHOOPS. I figure I'll start small with this book.
I had real difficulty getting into the story -- I didn't like the tone of the combined narrative voice/Tiffany's thoughts very much (it felt sort of simultaneously dumbed-down and punched-up for the YA market, and I missed the usual sarcastic undercutting tone of th More...
I had real difficulty getting into the story -- I didn't like the tone of the combined narrative voice/Tiffany's thoughts very much (it felt sort of simultaneously dumbed-down and punched-up for the YA market, and I missed the usual sarcastic undercutting tone of th More...
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Jun 09, 2009
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Nov 23, 2010
MisterFweem
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Any book featuring the Nac Mac Feegle is a win in my world.
But this, perhaps, is the bit I enjoy most from the book, and that's some of the hooptedoodle that Pratchett includes that's really not pertinent to the story, but oh-so-pertinent to developing his characters, which is a trait I admire in him:
Marjory J. Boddice had got some things laughably wrong. Girls on the Chalk didn't often run away from a young man who was rich enough to own his own horse -- or not for long and More...
But this, perhaps, is the bit I enjoy most from the book, and that's some of the hooptedoodle that Pratchett includes that's really not pertinent to the story, but oh-so-pertinent to developing his characters, which is a trait I admire in him:
Marjory J. Boddice had got some things laughably wrong. Girls on the Chalk didn't often run away from a young man who was rich enough to own his own horse -- or not for long and More...
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Jan 14, 2011
Qing
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Brief premise: Tiffany Aching danced with the Wintersmith during the Dark Morris dance... now he's fascinated by her and wants to marry her.^^^^Summer is not pleased (and she sounds quite spiteful).^^^^Good thing then that the Nac Mac Feegles are there to help her out =D Crivens!!!! .. Oh... and Roland, the boy she saved from the Queen of the Fairies back in the second book, A Hat Full of Sky ^____________________^^^^^Not only does Tiffany have to deal with the attentions of the Wintersmith, Ann
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Mar 27, 2011
Myles
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Oh waily, waily, waily!
This will be the last Terry Pratchett I read in a while, at least until I Shall Wear Midnight comes out in paperback this fall and Snuff gets published. Discworld is an incredible amount of fun and Pratchett has once again blurred the lines between his regular novels and those featuring the adventures of an increasingly grown-up Tiffany Aching. Wintersmith does not disappoint.
Pratchett perhaps took a cue from J.K. Rowling by ramping up the com More...
This will be the last Terry Pratchett I read in a while, at least until I Shall Wear Midnight comes out in paperback this fall and Snuff gets published. Discworld is an incredible amount of fun and Pratchett has once again blurred the lines between his regular novels and those featuring the adventures of an increasingly grown-up Tiffany Aching. Wintersmith does not disappoint.
Pratchett perhaps took a cue from J.K. Rowling by ramping up the com More...
Mar 05, 2011
Lydia
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Wintersmith is a well written fantasy by a well known science fiction/fantasy writer, Terry Prachett. I had never read one of Pratchett's books before and was surprised to find this in the YA section. I had mistakenly considered him an adult novel writer. It was interesting to find his first story was published when he was 13, and his first book just ten years later.
This is the third in a series (I hope to read the first two) about Tiffany Aching, a witch-in-training who has more abi More...
This is the third in a series (I hope to read the first two) about Tiffany Aching, a witch-in-training who has more abi More...
Dec 22, 2010
Thea
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This is a very engaging story of an adolescent girl coming into her powers. Nevermind that her powers are literally, her ability with witchcraft, this is a perfect coming of age tale for a girl. Tiffany is completely believable as a socially awkward, somewhat "country" pre-teen fending off the advances of a young (?!) man completely unsuited for her while denying her affection for another young man and defending herself from the jealousy of the unseated lady love of the unsuitable bo
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Jan 23, 2011
Rabenfrau
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Tiffany Weh, fast dreizehn, ist eine Junghexe in Ausbildung und Schülerin von Fräulein Verrat. Soweit scheint alles recht gut zu laufen, doch dann kann Tiffany beim Dunklen Morriskentanz ihre Füße nicht in Zaum halten und gerät mitten unter die Tänzer, an einen Platz, der eigentlich gar nicht für sie bestimmt ist. Und zieht so die Aufmerksamkeit des Winterschmieds auf sich.
Eigentlich sind ja Rosen aus Eis und Schneeflocken in Tiffany-Gestalt an sich schmeichelhaft…aber Eisberge mit der More...
Eigentlich sind ja Rosen aus Eis und Schneeflocken in Tiffany-Gestalt an sich schmeichelhaft…aber Eisberge mit der More...
Jun 25, 2011
Spuddie
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#3 in the Tiffany Aching sub-series of the Discworld fantasy novels, in which Tiffany, a witch-in-training, attends the Black Morris dance (signaling the beginning of winter) and accidentally dances with the Wintersmith who subsequently thinks she is the Summer Lady and sets out to make himself human so he can woo her. Tiffany, meanwhile, also has to deal with her current tutor, Miss Treason, dying and having her sort-of friend and fellow train More...
#3 in the Tiffany Aching sub-series of the Discworld fantasy novels, in which Tiffany, a witch-in-training, attends the Black Morris dance (signaling the beginning of winter) and accidentally dances with the Wintersmith who subsequently thinks she is the Summer Lady and sets out to make himself human so he can woo her. Tiffany, meanwhile, also has to deal with her current tutor, Miss Treason, dying and having her sort-of friend and fellow train More...
Mar 12, 2010
Sarai
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Tiffany Aching is a young woman learning how to be a witch. Without realizing what she is doing, she jumps in the middle of a traditional dance between Winter and Summer - and changes the way the story is supposed to go. The Wintersmith becomes fascinated with her and begins making snowflakes in her image, creating ice roses, and launching Tiffany-shaped icebergs into the oceans. Summer, for her part, is slightly miffed at this girl who seems to believe she can just take the place of a god. The
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Feb 20, 2011
Sherri
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Tiffany is an apprentice again, this time to Miss Treason, the oldest witch on Discworld. How old? She refers to Granny as "the girl Weatherwax."
She watches a strange dance in the woods and her feet begin to move. Before she realizes it she jumps into the dance and causes a schism the likes she has never known. Winter and Summer are separated. And Winter takes a personal interest in Tiffany. Or as "personal" as an element can manage, which produces Tiffany shaped s More...
She watches a strange dance in the woods and her feet begin to move. Before she realizes it she jumps into the dance and causes a schism the likes she has never known. Winter and Summer are separated. And Winter takes a personal interest in Tiffany. Or as "personal" as an element can manage, which produces Tiffany shaped s More...
Apr 29, 2010
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Mar 08, 2010
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Aug 23, 2010
Isaac
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Discworld in its later books has developed its own culture and style away from the simple parody of the early books. The evolution of the Lance Witches is a good example of this—they have become deeper and more diversified.
In this case, Tiffany Aching plays host to half a dozen continuity and mythology nods. Personally, I liked the book, but I'm not sure I can approve of the badass decay of Granny Weatherwax. Maybe it's supposed to be age or the coming of a new generation, but she More...
In this case, Tiffany Aching plays host to half a dozen continuity and mythology nods. Personally, I liked the book, but I'm not sure I can approve of the badass decay of Granny Weatherwax. Maybe it's supposed to be age or the coming of a new generation, but she More...
Oct 10, 2011
Tocotin
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I don't usually enjoy Discworld stories with witches that much (Granny Weatherwax is getting on my nerves with her infallibility), but in this one they kind of saved it. The plot about a hopeless love of an elemental for a 13-year-old human girl just wasn't terribly engaging. I'd have enjoyed it more if there were more of Annagramma and her troubles with the inherited cottage, or even of Mac Feegles. Tiffany Aching is a nice girl but she's not all that special, really. I liked all the other youn
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