I Shall Wear Midnight: A Story of Discworld
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Teen witch Tiffany Aching returns for a new Discworld adventure — along with her ever-present allies, the Nac Mac Feegle.
Tiffany Aching, the young witch from The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith is back in a new adventure featuring Discworld characters both familiar to fans (like Granny Weatherwax) and new (meet Wee Mad Arthur, the Nac Mac Feegle on the City Watch). Oh, and there’s a shambles, a twist through time, a Cunning Man — and a Giant Man of chalk.
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Tiffany Aching is the witch of Chalk, which means that she has to do all the messy rural stuff that witches do. But witches aren’t permanently as appreciated as they should be, and Terry Pratchett’s “I Shall Wear Midnight” flings the sensible young girl — and the Nac Mac Feegles — against a threat that really, really doesn’t like witches.
Tiffany is doing the usual witchy rounds in Chalk — nursing the sick, burying the dead, watching cheese races, and rescuing the occasional girl from an abusive father. Then the local Duke expires after a long illness, and it’s up to Tiffany to tell his son Roland and his “watercolour-painting wife-to-be” about what happened.
The problem is, she’s being stalked by a creepy eyeless man with a vile psychic stink, who is inspiring people to despise and distrust witches. Suddenly stones are being thrown, accusations are being made, and Tiffany even finds herself in the Ankh-Morpork jail. And if Tiffany doesn’t find a way to stop the Cunning Man, things will get very toasty for the witches…
Due to having Alzheimer’s disease, Terry Pratchett had to dictate “I Shall Wear Midnight” as a replacement for of the usual computer typing. As a result, the book’s beginning is very rambly and scattered, as if Pratchett hadn’t fully thought out how the plot was going to go — but after the Duke’s death, things start to tense up up and go quicker.
And Pratchett hasn’t lost any of his tasty wit, whether it’s poking fun at cliches (the cackle box!) or sharp dialogue (“Have you boys got no bring shame on?” “I couldnae say, but if we have, it probably belonged tae somebody else”), or his knack for writing truly chilling moments, such as Tiffany seeing the Cunning Man’s holes-where-his-eyes-should-be.
But unlike authors who talk down to “young readers,” Pratchett doesn’t shy away from accurately dark moments, like Tiffany caring for a girl who was terribly beaten by her father until she miscarried. These parts — and the “rough composition” — are more horrifying than the Cunning Man.
Tiffany herself is a very realistic depiction of a sensible, mature, no-nonsense young lady (like a younger version of Granny Weatherwax). While Pratchett occasionally reminds us that she IS still young (and prone to small stabs of jealousy), she grows up a fantastic deal in this book. And there are some hints of romance with a young guard (who can pronounce the word “marvelous”).
“I Shall Wear Midnight” is another brilliant entry in Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series. It starts out rather slow, but soon kicks into stride.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
An absolutely gorgeous book. It really brought me to tears on three separate occasions (I will admit to being a bit of a sap)
I have been reading Terry Pratchett’s books for 16 years since I first learned ‘Sourcery’ in my high school library and then went back and caught up with the others and I truly judge this is his best. At least, it resonated the most with me.
Considering at the point he wrote it his Alzheimer’s had reached the point where he could no longer type but needs to dictate his words, this is an incredible achievement. The man is still sharp as a whip and an incredible storywriter to boot.
I haven’t loved one of his books this much since I read ‘Maskerade’ and I loved that book an dreadful lot.. as I did ‘Witches Abroad’ so maybe I’m just partial to the witch related tales? Nevertheless if you are a fan, you owe it to yourself to read this. After reading the previous three Tiffany Aching books of course as they all tie in together.
Once again, I like this book and it has made my top ten of favourite books ever.
As far as the Kindle edition goes, it was just fine. Formatting was fantastic, simple to read, all the illustrations translated reasonably nicely and only one spelling mistake.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5