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Pratchett, Terry - A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith
Tue, Sep. 4th, 2007 06:55 pmWe return to the adventures of Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegle!
In A Hat Full of Sky, Tiffany ends up being possessed by something called a hiver, and Wintersmith is a sort of take on the Hades/Persephone myth. I continue to enjoy this series, though next time I may try to stop myself from reading several over a few days. It's interesting that each successive book has Tiffany make more mistakes than the last -- the conflict in Wintersmith is much more Tiffany's fault, and she comes off much more flawed.
Generally I like that, except for the romantic bits in Wintersmith, which I didn't take well to.
I'm rather impressed that Roland is actually likeable as a character, as opposed to the brat he was in The Wee Free Men. I think I wished for more of the Feegles in Wintersmith, particularly more of Jeannie.
My favorite in the series so far is A Hat Full of Sky; I found the ending very touching and real, and I particularly love the Granny Weatherwax-Tiffany interactions. Then again, Wintersmith has great Nanny Ogg-Tiffany interaction, and I really love that Pratchett has an actual range of older women in this series alone, from Miss Tick to Miss Treason to Nanny Ogg to Granny Weatherwax to Granny Aching. And Roland's aunts. He's got older women who reject traditional femininity and have lots of power, to those who play at traditional femininity (mostly Nanny Ogg, who subverts it in her own way by having lots of lovers and by continuing to talk about it while being older, and partially Miss Tick as teacher), which I appreciate.
Also, Horace the Cheese cracks me up.
In A Hat Full of Sky, Tiffany ends up being possessed by something called a hiver, and Wintersmith is a sort of take on the Hades/Persephone myth. I continue to enjoy this series, though next time I may try to stop myself from reading several over a few days. It's interesting that each successive book has Tiffany make more mistakes than the last -- the conflict in Wintersmith is much more Tiffany's fault, and she comes off much more flawed.
Generally I like that, except for the romantic bits in Wintersmith, which I didn't take well to.
I'm rather impressed that Roland is actually likeable as a character, as opposed to the brat he was in The Wee Free Men. I think I wished for more of the Feegles in Wintersmith, particularly more of Jeannie.
My favorite in the series so far is A Hat Full of Sky; I found the ending very touching and real, and I particularly love the Granny Weatherwax-Tiffany interactions. Then again, Wintersmith has great Nanny Ogg-Tiffany interaction, and I really love that Pratchett has an actual range of older women in this series alone, from Miss Tick to Miss Treason to Nanny Ogg to Granny Weatherwax to Granny Aching. And Roland's aunts. He's got older women who reject traditional femininity and have lots of power, to those who play at traditional femininity (mostly Nanny Ogg, who subverts it in her own way by having lots of lovers and by continuing to talk about it while being older, and partially Miss Tick as teacher), which I appreciate.
Also, Horace the Cheese cracks me up.