Tiffany Aching 4-Book Collection by Terry Pratchett

Rain don’t fall on a witch if she doesn’t want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful.’ ‘Then she made the wind her coat, too,’ said Granny Weatherwax. ‘Hah, all the shepherds used to say that if you saw Granny Aching in a coat it’d mean it was blowing rocks!’ said Tiffany proudly. ‘She made the sky her hat, then,’ said Granny Weatherwax. She said hats only blow away up on the hill.’ ‘She used to wear an old sack as a kind of bonnet when the weather was really bad. not usually,’ said Tiffany, still thinking about the big show. ‘Your grandmother,’ she said, ‘did she wear a hat?’ She delicately drank her tea out of the saucer, then nodded at the old hat on the table.

They were even more brilliant than in the first book. Maybe others read the story differently, maybe this wasn’t at all what the story was about, but I thought it was brilliant how the hivers invading Tiffany’s thoughts are basically overwhelmed by an onslaught of reality and hit out at anything around them as a defence mechanism. Maybe it was just the way I read the story, but it seemed to me that this book was about how Tiffany, 11, deals with grief and perhaps a spell of depression. I’m glad to be reading this one fairly close to finishing the first book because I am not sure I will remember much of the first book in a few weeks or months.Ī Hat Full of Sky, on the other hand, impressed me, but it wasn’t until almost the end of the book when I finally realised what it was about the story that got to me. So here we have the second Tiffany Aching book. Final Thoughts – This will contain spoilers:

Tiffany Aching 4-Book Collection by Terry Pratchett