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The Shepherd's Crown
by Terry Pratchett, Rob Wilkins
FEELS
FEELS
FEELS
CRYING
FEELS
SOBS
MORE FEELS
(I will try to keep this spoiler free!)
I was 7 years old when I first read The Wee Free Men (it had just come out, and my dad persuaded me to read it). Needless to say, I loved it. Tiffany immediately joined Hermione Granger and Matilda Wormwood in my List Of People I Want To Be (and let's face it, not much has changed). Between then and now I read all 39 other Discworld novels, plus lots of Sir Terry's other works, and as anyone who has ever spoken to me will tell you, am rather obsessed. I read The Wee Free Men so long ago that I can't actually remember reading it for the first time, and Discworld means as much to me as Harry Potter. (Almost). That is saying a lot.
When I found out that the last book would also be about Tiffany, I knew already that it would be an emotional read, because apart from anything else, I was starting and ending with a favourite character, a character that I'd grown up with - after all, each time a new Tiffany book came out, I hadn't been that far off age-wise.
It did not disappoint. At all. Even if this hadn't been the last book, this would have been one of my favourite Discworld books, and it felt all the more significant for the number of different characters (even more so than in Raising Steam) who popped up, often so we could see how their stories had ended, but they still contributed to the overall plot. There was also a slightly sad, cyclical nature; Equal Rites was, in many ways, the first Discworld book as we know it now, and many storylines from that were brought back or rounded off.
And, needless to say, I cried. And not the usual sniffle that I mean when I say 'I cried': I mean buckets. So, so, so many tears. I'm sure that a lot of that was, as previously mentioned, my relationship with Tiffany as a character - I've just finished my first year at university, and have just moved into my first house, and am really finding out who I am as an adult; which, of course, is what Tiffany's doing.
Nothing that PTerry writes is ever insignificant, but this was something else entirely. I have a lot more feelings about this, but I'll save them for another time, and maybe somewhere where I can put spoilers. But if you haven't read the Discworld series, get on with it. GNU Terry Pratchett.
FEELS
FEELS
CRYING
FEELS
SOBS
MORE FEELS
(I will try to keep this spoiler free!)
I was 7 years old when I first read The Wee Free Men (it had just come out, and my dad persuaded me to read it). Needless to say, I loved it. Tiffany immediately joined Hermione Granger and Matilda Wormwood in my List Of People I Want To Be (and let's face it, not much has changed). Between then and now I read all 39 other Discworld novels, plus lots of Sir Terry's other works, and as anyone who has ever spoken to me will tell you, am rather obsessed. I read The Wee Free Men so long ago that I can't actually remember reading it for the first time, and Discworld means as much to me as Harry Potter. (Almost). That is saying a lot.
When I found out that the last book would also be about Tiffany, I knew already that it would be an emotional read, because apart from anything else, I was starting and ending with a favourite character, a character that I'd grown up with - after all, each time a new Tiffany book came out, I hadn't been that far off age-wise.
It did not disappoint. At all. Even if this hadn't been the last book, this would have been one of my favourite Discworld books, and it felt all the more significant for the number of different characters (even more so than in Raising Steam) who popped up, often so we could see how their stories had ended, but they still contributed to the overall plot. There was also a slightly sad, cyclical nature; Equal Rites was, in many ways, the first Discworld book as we know it now, and many storylines from that were brought back or rounded off.
And, needless to say, I cried. And not the usual sniffle that I mean when I say 'I cried': I mean buckets. So, so, so many tears. I'm sure that a lot of that was, as previously mentioned, my relationship with Tiffany as a character - I've just finished my first year at university, and have just moved into my first house, and am really finding out who I am as an adult; which, of course, is what Tiffany's doing.
Nothing that PTerry writes is ever insignificant, but this was something else entirely. I have a lot more feelings about this, but I'll save them for another time, and maybe somewhere where I can put spoilers. But if you haven't read the Discworld series, get on with it. GNU Terry Pratchett.