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Wintersmith: A Discworld Novel (Hardcover)
by Terry Pratchett

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34492.Wintersmith_A_Discworld_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Wintersmith: A Discworld Novel (Hardcover)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1168566153m/34492.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34492.Wintersmith_A_Discworld_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Wintersmith: A Discworld Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1654.Terry_Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14253365?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 4 of 5 stars I walked into my local bookstore, saw this on the shelf and snapped it right up. I think Terry is now the only author I'll do that for. As much as I love <a href="/search/search?q=Stephen King&t=author">Stephen King</a>, <a href="/search/search?q=Neil Gaiman&t=author">Neil Gaiman</a>, <a href="/search/search?q=Connie Willis&t=author">Connie Willis</a>, <a href="/search/search?q=Robert Jordan&t=author">Robert Jordan</a>, they're not automatic buys. Pratchett is.
 
 Anyway, this is the third of the Tiffany Aching books, stories about the young witch of the chalk. She's the granddaughter of a great witch, Granny Aching, and studies under some of the most powerful witches of Lancre. In addition, she has the undivided devotion of the Nac Mac Feagle, the Wee Free Men, who are determined to help her. Even if she doesn't want them to. The Nac Mac Feagle? Imagine.... Imagine the Smurfs crossed with mad Scottish Picts. They're a blast.
 
 In this story, Tiffany has come to the attention of Wintersmith, the spirit of winter, by interrupting the Black Morris Dance. By doing so, she finds herself the obsessive target of an elemental force of nature. The frost on the window spells her name, and the flakes that fall from the sky have her shape. Over-attentive boyfriends have never been quite this bad, and this one is threatening to plunge the world into eternal ice.
 
 In addition, Tiffany is learning the darkest arts of witchery, its hidden secrets and greatest power. Her teacher, the 113-year old Miss Treason is one of the most feared witches in the mountains, but not long for this world. It will be Tiffany's responsibility to see to it that the great power of witchcraft remains strong.
 
 As always, it's a fun book. It's Pratchett. And I understand he has a new one out now, too. Man, anyone who can write as many books as he does and be consistently good is my hero....
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I walked into my local bookstore, saw this on the shelf and snapped it right up. I think Terry is now the only author I'll do that for. As much as I love Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, Robert Jordan, they're not automatic buys. Pratchett is.

Anyway, this is the third of the Tiffany Aching books, stories about the young witch of the chalk. She's the granddaughter of a great witch, Granny Aching, and studies under some of the most powerful witches of Lancre. In addition, she has the undivided devotion of the Nac Mac Feagle, the Wee Free Men, who are determined to help her. Even if she doesn't want them to. The Nac Mac Feagle? Imagine.... Imagine the Smurfs crossed with mad Scottish Picts. They're a blast.

In this story, Tiffany has come to the attention of Winte...more

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