Book - I Shall Wear Midnight

I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld #38)
Terry Pratchett
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It starts with whispers.

Then someone picks up a stone.

Finally, the fires begin.

When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . .

Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that aren’t sparkly, aren’t fun, don’t involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy.

But someone—or something—is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its root—before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls withher.

Chilling drama combines with laughout-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.

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Terry Pratchett and Discworld is always my guilty pleasure read. It's always so weirdly funny and then you think about it, it really conveys how real life goes, so it turns into absurdly funny.

The Tiffany Arc isn't my favourite arc (but it's growing on me, believe me!), but I decided to read this all the same because I thought the book had a really beautiful title - I Shall Wear Midnight. Really pretty, with the right amount of mystery, yet some slight understanding rings in my head when I hear the title - that this is when Tiffany really, officially, grows up and becomes a Witch with a capital W.

Once again the Nac Mac Feegles are here and, I can't read them too much as then I start tae talk like 'em. Ya ken, a lil wee bit like 'em. Crivens! An' it gimmes a headache.

It also ends exceptionally sweet and I'm tempted to be really hopeful that this is not the last of Tiffany we're going to see.