365 Days of Books

Set in the Disc world I Shall Wear Midnight (reference the poem When I am old I shall wear purple) picks up the life of Tiffany Aching previously seen in Wintersmith and A Hat Full of Sky and her defenders the Wee Free Men. Tiffany is struggling to untangle where she and love intersect. It's hard to focus on the untangling while fear and an obsesses ghost are turning the community and the wider world into a witch hunt. The generally pragmatic witches find gentle ways to turn the hate and to shine a light into the dark places where the hate filled shadows confuse people. The whispering shadows seem almost comical and it is hard to take them seriously until violence begins. Tiffany knows she should be the mature person but (stamp foot) she is not yet old and she wants to live young while she is young.

This is probably the last in the Tiffany Aching series. Terry Pratchett settles things nicely, satisfyingly and not at all completely. Surely a character as real as Tiffany Aching will continue to live outside of the books just as I believe life in Disc world continues when Mr. Pratchett is not opening windows and giving us glimpses.