The book I am going to talk about is Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. Unfortunately this won’t be like my ordinary reviews because I did not actually finish this book. My aunt who gave me the book after she gave me the idea for a blog. So I am going to talk about the book in general, just how I thought of it and my opinion.
The Wintersmith is about a young girl around the age of thirteen called Tiffany Aching. Tiffany is being trained from a witch by the name of miss treason.
But when she takes Tiffany to witness the secret dark morris, (the morris dance welcomes in the winter) but she gets drawn into the dance and joins in. then something unexpected happens, Tiffany comes face to face with the Wintersmith-winter himself-who mistakes her for the summer lady. He is enchanted by her and mystified by her presence.
Now Tiffany has bigger problems than chores, she starts to discover she has powers and has to deal with the Wintersmith.
Evan though I did not read all of the book, that does not mean I did not enjoy the parts I did read. This was a very interesting book. I got hooked at first while reading it, but I didn’t think a great deal of it some way threw. Terry Pratchett did a very good job at developing the plot but I have to say it was a ‘’out there’’ for me. There was so much going on and so many creatures introduced so quickly. There were humans, gods, goddesses, elementals, ogres and feegles. There was just so much going on all at once. I would have had to read a page nearly three times to understand what was going on.
One thing I loved about the book is the way they spoke. I have to say Terry Pratchett has the oddest way of speaking.
“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
“They writes some bits o’ their letters in them wee codies. that’s a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It’s hard enough reading’ the normal words, wi’oot somebody jumbling’ them all up.”
Hopefully when I have more time I’ll give it ago again. I would recommend this novel to fourteen and up. Over all it was a good few chapters, I have to say the Terry Pratchett is an amazingly astonishing inspirational author.
