choconougat reviewed A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
a blend of Thief of Time and the later witch books and a bit of Nation too.
4 stars
It does get a bit repetitive, when I keep on reading the later half of Disc. Sadly (or fortunately), I like these topics. (But really, Pterry, I hope you found some new arguments or you are gonna end up like Moffat or any other writer whom I have seen too much of.)
He's done quite a lot of what it means to be a witch in children language in this one, i.e., living on the edge. And the edge could be anywhere, any time. You have to make the right decision.
It has, as much as I can remember, the first appearance of the Black Desert after Small Gods (I LOVE the black desert), I am happy to see more of that. I felt half mocking and half overwhelmed when I read the part of pouring sand out of boots; mocking because I have seen the same thing he's done …
It does get a bit repetitive, when I keep on reading the later half of Disc. Sadly (or fortunately), I like these topics. (But really, Pterry, I hope you found some new arguments or you are gonna end up like Moffat or any other writer whom I have seen too much of.)
He's done quite a lot of what it means to be a witch in children language in this one, i.e., living on the edge. And the edge could be anywhere, any time. You have to make the right decision.
It has, as much as I can remember, the first appearance of the Black Desert after Small Gods (I LOVE the black desert), I am happy to see more of that. I felt half mocking and half overwhelmed when I read the part of pouring sand out of boots; mocking because I have seen the same thing he's done for the same meaning in Nation, overwhelmed because it is still beautiful. Repeating beautiful things is okay by me (of course it is, or you'd have left disc series already).
It's a bit of Thief of Time in the sense that this monster has no sense of me but only the sense of us, has no human morality but only other human things like wants and desires and fear. I suppose it is a mirror of a witch, or any other character Pterry has made who fear themselves and watch themselves all the time.
The witch trials in this one must be a different year from the Sea and Little fish. I am amused that Tiffany got so much favoritism from Granny in other witches' eyes but in fact they fought like cats. Well, that's being witch. You admire each other but also fight like cats.