![]() ![]() ![]() One is of course the character of Tiffany: a young, precocious, plain looking girl with a lot of self-possession, who learns how to be a witch – and in the terms of Terry Pratchett that totally unlike anything you would see in a Harry Potter novel. So, now we have this Tiffany Aching subseries running, and it has a couple of elements that really define it, that make it its own. ![]() I’m glad to find it again in this subseries. Pratchett got sharper his humor turned mocking and scornful, and I felt I was losing something that made the series so enjoyable for me. The Tiffany Aching novels got a certain innocent, carefree comedic storytelling that had also been part of the previous two dozen Discworld novels, while the other, non-adult Discworld novels got angrier undertones.īefore this one I read Monstrous Regiment, in which Pratchett engaged with feminism, gender politics and war, and Night Watch before that, in which he tackled revolutions, civil war, imprisonment and other dark topics. ![]() A new subseries focusing on a young girl, Tiffany Aching, introduced a “young adult” line of novels, and, in my opinion, these Tiffany Aching novels retained a central quality of the Discworld series that I started to miss in the regular “adult” novels. In the early 2000s, with about two dozen Discworld novels behind him, Terry Pratchett changed his style a bit. ![]()
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