If you have ever enjoyed any Pratchett, this is another winner to add to your dance card. We know enough to attach to them, but not so much as to be lost in the minutiae. Overall, the characters are, as usual, filled with enough flaws as to make them feel real, detailed enough to be consistent, yet not so complex as to be hard to keep track of. And if she fails, her sister witches may just have to kill her. They all combine to form a tangle that Tiffany must see through, in order to avoid a future too terrible to imagine. Tiffany must leave the Chalk to save it, travelling to the metropolis of Ahnk-Morpork with the intent of tracking down the new heir to the land, only to discover far, far more than she could ever imagine, including a meeting with a legend, a mysterious old witch who hides in shadows, a phantom hare that jumps into fires, a dead witch-hunter with no eyes, and an escaped prisoner. it's classic Pratchett polished to perfection. Full of trickery, time twisting, sympathetic magic - in all meanings of the phrase - and outright surprises that sneak up on you like a sneaky thing. The fourth title in the ' Tiffany Aching' sub-series from the Discworld, this is quite possibly one of the best Pratchett stories I have read in the last five years. This Review: 9.8/10 Value for Money: Level of Realism: Rereadability: Lose Track of Time: Things are supposed to look better after a good night's sleep.īut they're going to get a lot, lot worse.Īnd a witch has to deal with what is in front of her. Suddenly Tiffany isn't so sure she's doing the right thing, and her tiny allies - the fightin' Nac Mac Feegles - are only making things more difficult.

And it's waking up all the old stories too - stories about evil old witches. Even if the job does seem to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much, well, magic.īut somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up.

And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people of the Chalk.

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I shall wear midnight