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    I Shall Wear Midnight
    I Shall Wear Midnight
    I Shall Wear Midnight
    Audiobook9 hours

    I Shall Wear Midnight

    Written by Terry Pratchett

    Narrated by Stephen Briggs

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    The fourth in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.

    As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone—or something—is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the source of unrest and defeat the evil at its root. Aided by the tiny-but-tough Wee Free Men, Tiffany faces a dire challenge, for if she falls, the whole Chalk falls with her. . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 7, 2010
    ISBN9780061996801
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    Terry Pratchett

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

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    • 4/5
       A good, fun, read for those into the Discworld/Tiffany Aching series. Pratchett is his usually witty self, and there was a nice touch of romance in this one. Love the Feegles, as always, but find the story a bit forgettable, also as always.
    • 5/5
      My favourite book of all time, narrated beautifully. I could listen 100 times to it and never grow bored.
    • 5/5
      What I like most about the entire Tiffany Aching series is that each book can be read (or heard) over and over again. It seems like there's always something I missed and didn't catch till the second or third time around. Terry Pratchett's brilliance is multi dimensional.
    • 3/5
      Not as good as the previous Aching books, but there was a lot to compete with (not sure anything quite competes with _The Wee Free Men_. A solidly good book for Pratchett.
    • 4/5
      A wonderful finish to one of my very favorite fantasy series.
      Terry Pratchett is a gem; always fun to read!
    • 5/5
      Sir Terry at his finest. Read the whole series then go read everything else he ever wrote.
    • 5/5
      I missed the other junior witches and wished there was more of Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, but I loved Mrs Proust and Letitia and especially Preston. The actual story with the Cunning Man didn't grab me that much, though. I think of the four, Wintersmith and A Hat Full of Sky are my favorites (especially A Hat Full of Sky). One thing I really didn't like about this one is that I hate when the plot of something requires everyone to hate/misunderstand the main character. I actually find it really hard to read. So all the parts where people were being affected by the Cunning Man and turning against Tiffany were really unpleasant. (Also the stuff with Roland.)
    • 5/5
      This was a good ending to the Tiffany Aching story. (Though I hear there is a new one coming? Yay!) Tiffany has the hardest test yet. A witch-finder ghost is after Tiffany, and her witch mentors/friends have come to make sure she succeeds. Or they will kill her? Seems extreme, but that is the Discworld way. Tiffany also has Boy Troubles. Her old flame has a new girl, and the witch-finder is turning even him against everything to do with witches. How will Tiffany survive? By using Pratchett's wit and wordplay and a bit of independent thinking. Plus the Feegles. Of course they will help. A fine conclusion to the Tiffany arc. Though I would not refuse to read a 5th book...
    • 5/5
      When I first came across this book (long before I knew of Tiffany Aching or Discworld), I wanted to read it, but the cowardly part of me didn't want to face the horrible things that were to come. If that makes sense..

      Anyway I'm glad to have read it, though sad that the Tiffany Aching series has ended for now. I'm glad she found Preston..because there needs to be romance!

      All in all excellent characters as usual, no diminishing of TP's trademark hilarity, though this had a few more serious overtones.

      And yay as always for the Nac Mac Feegles & their new member Wee Arthur of the Polis (ye ken) :D
    • 5/5
      terrific.
    • 4/5
      I've found this ridiculously hard to review. I shall wear midnight isn't as funny as some other Pratchett. It does, instead, give us some societal issues to deal with. A father who beats his child until she miscarries, for example. But then I felt almost like to fell in to the familiar Discworld patter of big external evil must be overcome in some way and forgot to go back and take care of the issues it raised in the first half. It was nicely paced, funny in parts, touching in parts, it just felt a little off for a discworld book and I'm not exactly sure why.
    • 5/5
      My favorite author and my favorite narrator/performer of all times in one package - for me, it doesn't get better than this.
    • 5/5
      In this installment, Tiffany must contend with a powerful ghost of a witch hunter. He is drawn to powerful young witches who remind him of his first love. His coming causes otherwise normal people to suspect and fear witches. Unfortunately, this is all exacerbated by the death of the Baron and the approaching wedding of Roland. Roland's new bride seems soppy at first but soon turns out to be a powerful witch in her own right.Tiffany must fight for her steading as well as reality itself. If the ghost defeats her it could me another dark age of witch hunting and the deaths of many innocent people. A complex and captivating story full of wisdom and beauty.
    • 5/5
      I love Terry Pratchett's books, and I esp. like the Tiffany Aching series because it focuses on the often neglected women of Discworld. This book had more serious undertones than the previous ones in the series, making me question its appropriateness for a young audience. But I very much enjoyed it. Tiffany rocks!
    • 5/5
      Tiffany Aching is now fifteen. No longer a trainee, she is the witch of the hills. She spends her days and nights delivering babies, setting broken limbs, bandaging sores, clipping toenails and doing a hundred and one other thankless tasks for the people of the chalk. Just occasionally, she also gets to eat, sleep and do a little bit of magic.But someone somewhere doesn't like her very much. And they've woken up some old fears, and the fears are spreading. Witches are being threatened again. In fact, anyone with books with strange symbols and languages, or a cat, or a warty nose is becoming a target for hate. And the Thing - a Thing with no eyes but an awful lot of hate - is coming after Tiffany...Tiffany has grown up a lot in this book: she's a little worn down by the responsibility, and she's suffering the normal romantic tribulations of a fifteen year old girl. The story is very focused on her, and her role within her community. That won't be to everyone's taste - the Tiffany-must-beat-the-supernatural-threat plot is only one of many, and if one thing disappointed me slightly it was that the final confrontation was resolved without as much suspense and drama as I expected.The supporting characters were strong, both the old friends and the new characters, and the Thing chasing Tiffany was wonderful horrible, in part because of its subtlety. The character development of Tiffany herself, of Roland and of the new characters Letitia ("Halfway between a salad and a sneeze") and Preston ("When I'm on night duty and somebody comes to the gate, I have to say 'Who goes there, friend or foe?' To which, of course, the correct answer is 'Yes'.") is excellent.All in all, I think this a wonderful addition to the Tiffany Aching series.
    • 5/5
      This is the fourth book in the Tiffany Aching series set on Discworld. Tiffany is THE witch of the Chalk- the open farmlands outside of Ankh-Morpork. As the witch, most of what she does is birth babies, tend to the sick and poor, and ease people as they die. It’s messy, dirty work that is unpaid except for potatoes, hams, old sheets to make in bandages and an occasional pair of old boots. Because witches can’t be paid, and most of the people of the Chalk are too poor to pay her, anyway. On Discworld, being a witch has little to do with sparkle and wands and much to do with human need. Tiffany is (almost) sixteen, and is almost as mature as she thinks she is. She’s tired all the time and scarcely stops to eat. When she tries to take a day off to attend the scouring (a country fair on the Chalk), of course things go badly- she ends up tending to a 13 year old young woman who’s father has beaten her so badly that she has miscarried. Tiffany helps her by taking her to the Feegle mound to be tended to by the kelda of the Nac Mac Feegle, a woman- a wee tiny woman- who has the art of the soothins, the easing of emotional pain, leading to misunderstandings with the girl’s family. Then the old Baron dies, with Tiffany in attendance, and she finds her self accused of murder, theft, kidnapping and of doing black magic. Tiffany has a couple of enemies, supernatural and human, but they aren’t the only problems that have led to her troubles. She has brought some of her troubles on herself, and this can be harder to deal with than the spirit of an ancient witch burner who has been roused from his long sleep and is set on destroying her. Tiffany doesn’t understand people nearly as well as she understands fire and magic, and her behavior has made it easier for people to turn against her when the spirit triggers their prejudice. It’s a novel about growing up, about letting go of preconceptions, about understand the first thoughts and second sight, about catching the words that people almost say but don’t dare to. I love all the Tiffany Aching books, but this one is my favorite. In between the slapstick humor of the Nac Mac Feegle and the magic flying broomsticks is a lot of psychology and philosophy and some musings on what constitutes magic. A lot of people have said that this is the last Tiffany Aching book. I do hope not. She is my favorite Discworld character, and there are a lot of plot threads left untied at the end that could launch several more novels of witching life on the Chalk. Well done, Mr. Pratchett, you have created the most believable witch in literature.
    • 5/5
      After the witches, Nac Mac Feegles are my second favorite set of characters in Discowrld and "I Shall Wear Midnight," the last Tiffany Aching book the very short series hopefully does NOT mark their last appearance in the Discworld.
      TPerry's books always contain a subtext element of commentary about the modern world and with ISWM, the only commentary I could find was the comment on love. And of peace. And of hope.
      I don't think we could ask for a better ending than that.
    • 5/5
      Stories are important in life, it is what makes us human. Also, you should know who you are and where you come from, in life. And Tiffany, the witch on the chalk, is hunted by a story amidst grief, happiness, death, mercy and the rough music.
    • 5/5
      Probably the best for characterization of Tiffany Aching. Pratchett really does some magic making this story feel deep. The ending to the conflict was a bit weak, however the build-up more than made up for it, as well as the author's note.
    • 5/5
      Whenever I think about the very likely odds that I could have gone my entire life without reading anything by Terry Pratchett but Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, I feel again grateful to my friend who pressed a copy of The Wee Free Men into my hands and made it absolutely impossible for me to not read it.One of Pratchett's many gifts is being able to balance very dark topics with the nigh-slapstick humor of the Feels, somehow without cheating either. But even though that's been a constant feature of the Tiffany Aching books, this volume still feels like a notable turn into darker territory. The anti-witch prejudice being raised by a mysterious evil is so terrible. And yet it is met in the book by Tiffany and her well of empathy that seems to grow impossibly deeper all the time. It has so much to say about all the blind and lazy prejudice and hatred in the world, and somehow forgiving people and persevering through it. Not to say that compassion always comes easy for Tiffany. She struggles with her calling and the thanklessness of much of her work and feeling alone. Which just makes her feel more real.I continue to love these books
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed it, but I didn't rip through it as I have Pratchett books in the past (which is less a failing on the part of the book, and more a lack of energy on my part). I loved the way that reader's interpretations of books is explored when two young women discuss a book of fairy stories they both read as children, and the fact that the pseudo love triangle wasn't sorted out by the aristocratic male dumping his aristocratic fiance to run off with the local working class female. And I very much liked the meta references to Tiffany being good with endings, such that Pratchett could congratulate himself on the way that the plot is tidied up.
    • 4/5
      I love Terry Pratchett and Tiffany is one of my favorite characters, I can't wait for the next one.
    • 4/5
      As Tiffany settles into her job a new menace appears. The ghost of a witch finder is able to stir up ancient fears and Tiffany must confront it and kill it before it possesses her.
    • 3/5
      Reliable. Entertaining, thoughtful, charming and full of human kindness and humour. Just what I wanted.
    • 4/5
      The Tiffany Aching series has quickly become one of my favorite Discworld line of books. And I thoroughly enjoyed the last (for me) book of the series. Dealing with the maturing of Tiffany Aching and the coming into her own as a witch. It was an engaging story about confronting the realities of the world, in all its ugliness and learning the balance of life. An important death forces the community to come to terms with their roles within society. I Shall Wear Midnight is darker and more serious than most of the Discworld, less humorous and jovial. I think on the whole the Aching series has been a bit more serious than the others. I also think this story arch is far superior to the witches' series, or at least more cohesive.
    • 5/5
      A few years after we last saw Tiffany Aching, she seems firmly established as the witch of the Chalk, but then whispers and rumors start to move and suddenly Witches are Bad and Tiffany becomes suspect. She brought it on herself when she kissed Winter and unknowingly woke up something else...Another solid installment in the Discworld series. Tiffany is a wonderful character and I love spending time with her. There's even a bit of a crossover between her part of the world and the City Watch, and I may have geeked out just a bit at that.
    • 5/5
      Tiffany Aching is older and a bit wiser in the final installment of the series. The Cunning Man, a supernatural witch hunter is on the loose and determined to finish her off. Is she clever enough to defeat him?

      Of course, as with the other books, the plot is among the least interesting aspects of the book. What I adore and treasure about them is the commentary within the narrative. Pratchett has invented a fantastically reasonable view of witches and witchcraft, acknowledging that sometimes the things that are simplest are really the most complicated, and vice versa. He is a master at infusing humor into common sense and making it profound. I found myself wanting to call up friends just to read them paragraphs.

      I love this book so much I have a hard time articulating my thoughts about it. Maybe I should go read it again....
    • 4/5
      3.5 starsTiffany Aching is now 15 years old. She is a good witch and helps people when they need help. Unfortunately, an older man, the Baron (also the father of Tiffany’s friend, Roland) passes away under her care. Also a girl, Amber, has been abused by her father and she is found with the Nac Mac Feegles (the tough Scottish fairies) and their “kelda” (female leader). Somehow an evil force has awakened and is coming after Tiffany. Hard to write a summary, as there were a few different things going on. Overall, I liked the book, though some parts were better than others. I found Amber’s storyline interesting, as well as when Roland’s fiancee, Letitia, appears – I liked her, too. There were parts that I didn’t find quite as interesting, but overall, it was enjoyable.
    • 3/5
      3.5* for this audiobook edition as Stephen Briggs does a great job.

      Tiffany Aching is now 16 years old and in charge of her own steading. However, anti-witch feeling is growing and it isn't long before Tiffany has to face the problem... I was surprised and pleased at the author's afterword - something I have not encountered in any of the previous books.
    • 5/5
      I have two copies of each of the books in the series. One copy for having, one for sharing out. The final book did not disappoint... I laughed, I may have cried *a very little* at the end. Not much. We are not saps over here at Casa Wilde. Oh no.

      I am glad these books are in the world.