| I Shall Wear Midnight |  | Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Doubleday Children's Books
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0385611072
EAN: 9780385611077
ASIN: 0385611072
Publication Date: September 2, 2010 (New: This Week)
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A man with no eyes. Two tunnels in his head ...It's not easy being a witch, and it's not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea.
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 Best in Tiffany Aching's series September 5, 2010
Rezazur (Cambridge, UK)
It's a really good read. On a more technical note the kindle version could use a nicer cover and higher resolution pictures at the beginnings of the chapters.
Another classic story from Terry Pratchett September 5, 2010
N. Butt (England)
What a brilliant continuation of the Tiffany Aching tale...! Being Scottish I just love the Nac Mac Feegles and their suspiciously close resemblance to a few folk I know!
Overall a great novel in the best traditions of the Discworld novels...!
 Tiffs Back September 5, 2010
Stephen F. Wilkins (Seascale Cumbria)
I'm in the I liked rather than loved it camp.I didn't think it as good as Wintermith or Hat full of Sky[my personal favourite] but I really enjoyed it,the visit to Ankh was lovely old favourites popping up was super and I often wondered about Eskarina, all in all a darned good read and probably when I re-read it, it will improve like all Terrys books seem to.
Let down slightly by a weak ending September 5, 2010
Matt Westwood (Reading, UK)
Up till the last forty or so pages it was utterly, utterly superb, but the ending was rushed.
The rest of the book made up for it. It was also the cause of the spookiest of coincidences.
On the way back from the supermarket where I picked it up in the evening of Thursday 2nd Sept, while my wife was taking the old lady's shopping to her (her job contains aspects of Tiffany's), I was listening to the radio in the car. There was a few minutes where the concept of "rough music" was being explained. This was something I'd never encountered before.
And then a couple of hours later I read Chapter 2 of ISWM. How spooky is that?
I can't argue with the assessment of other reviewers that there's not a lot new about the plot (Tiff has to clear up a mess caused by her own mistakes), but for all that, practically every single twist was unpredictable.
BTW does anyone know where "cat full of sixpences" comes from, or is it genuinely Pratchettian?
Crivens! The Big Wee Hag Is All Grown Up September 5, 2010
Meerkat (Dereham, Norfolk)
Like the other reviewers, I adore the Tiffany Aching books. What's different about this one is that Tiffany is (a) almost old enough for the responsibilities placed on her shoulders to save the Wold and look after her 'flock' (as one reviewer brilliantly put it, 'like a medieval Social Worker', although I would add 'counsellor, nanny, care worker etc') and (b) she faces the latest threat with far greater confidence and with a far greater grasp of her abilities than she was able to in the three previous books. She also (and this is probably point (c) actually!) does so without making terrible mistakes. All the mistakes have been made in her past and one of the really big ones is coming back to haunt Tiffany and this time it's so bad that the other senior witches (the wonderful Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg) and some new senior witches (Mrs Proust from 'Boffo' in Ankh Morpork) just may have to kill her if she fails in order to save all witches.
One other reviewer said that there was an indefinible 'something missing' from the book, and I agree, but that doesn't in any way detract from the story for me. I also can't define what it is, maybe a bit of tautness in the plotting?
If you enjoyed the other three books in this series and are having withdrawal symptoms from the wonderful world of the Wold, this is a great book and one you will thoroughly enjoy.
An added bonus for Diskworld fans is that Tiffany goes to Ankh Morpork and we get a glimpse of how things are going for Vimes and Carrot and Angua. AND, as if that wasn't enough, Wee Mad Arthur is in it too, in a most surprising way!
How can you resist?!?
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