mass market paperback, 304 pages
Published July 26, 2016 by Corgi.
A reminder of what we were privileged to have, and hat we have lost.....
I read this book, knowing it would be the last I would hear of the Discworld. I felt sad, as if I was saying goodbye to a dear friend who is to move so far away you will never be able to meet again. And yet it was a worthy end where you can believe Great A'Tuin just to glide on eternally, only without you hearing about it...
On reading, the book felt different from all the other Discworld novels, and I really can't say whether it was my melancholy seeping into the pages, or the other way around. It felt more serious, though it hardly lacked the typical Pratchett humour and irony, and it centered itself around the topics of death, and change.
We meet Granny Weatherwax for the last time, and we follow Tiffany Aching who has to grow up completely all of a sudden and face challenges …
I read this book, knowing it would be the last I would hear of the Discworld. I felt sad, as if I was saying goodbye to a dear friend who is to move so far away you will never be able to meet again. And yet it was a worthy end where you can believe Great A'Tuin just to glide on eternally, only without you hearing about it...
On reading, the book felt different from all the other Discworld novels, and I really can't say whether it was my melancholy seeping into the pages, or the other way around. It felt more serious, though it hardly lacked the typical Pratchett humour and irony, and it centered itself around the topics of death, and change.
We meet Granny Weatherwax for the last time, and we follow Tiffany Aching who has to grow up completely all of a sudden and face challenges which are almost too much for her. And we are left with so many threads you feel Pratchett might have tied into new strings, if he'd only had the time.
But on the other hand it is exactly this which gives you the hope that Great A'Tuin is out there still, somewhere.
(Though I hope that the Discworld will be left at peace, just as Sir Terry Pratchett left it to his readers.)
