Werk

In my somewhat inconsistent Friday night lite series we are once again featuring Terry Pratchett. This time his latest:



This story is the third in the Tiffany Aching series of young adult books. The lead character a particularly precocious and stubborn child who, in the two previous installments (The Wee Free Men, and Hat Full of Sky), has battled the Queen of the Fairies and a Hiver (oh you'll have to read them to find out what that means) with her retinue of Nac Mac Feegle. The Feegles add hilarity and random free association to the story, as you can probably assume from the names of two of the characters: Rob Anybody and Daft Wullie. There are also an assortment of other standard Discworld characters that show up in these novels, most notably the witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg who make standard and revealing appearances here.
But enough of background, and on to what this book covers. In Wintersmith, Tiffany falls in love with the spirit of winter (the eponymous title character) who is far from human. In her first crush she inadvertantly invokes unending winter for the disc, almost. The story of how she eventually fights back is a quite amazing one, but not being a spoiler I will save that for you to discover. The real genius of this, or any, Pratchett book is the humor. In this book the most hilarious point was a single worded (or onomatopoeia) footnote. Ah, what sparse and delicious humor.

Rated: A

Currently Listening: (3 stars out of 4)