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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Definitely unfinished and unpolished (for obvious reasons) but decent bones nonetheless.
I cried when Granny dies which happens a lot earlier than I expected, and I cried at the end, knowing it's Terry Pratchett's final novel. I love the Tiffany series, and it's just such a perfect ending.
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
So, this is it. I read my first Discworld books sometime in high school, and then seriously decided I was going to read the whole series back in 2014. And here I am, a decade later, finally finished with the last book. This was... a really great book. This was a really great series.
There's more than character development in this series. There's world development. And I don't mean that in the usual sense, but in the sense that the world of Discworld, the world itself, evolved and changed, and started at one place and ended in another, and there was just a whole character arc, I guess you could say, for the world itself as Terry Pratchett evolved and changed as an author. And it's really something beautiful to behold, when you put it all together like that, from the beginning to the very end.
I'm going to miss this world. I'm going to miss having new books to come to in it. But I'm absolutely going to revisit it. How could I not, when I can see the whole picture now?
There's more than character development in this series. There's world development. And I don't mean that in the usual sense, but in the sense that the world of Discworld, the world itself, evolved and changed, and started at one place and ended in another, and there was just a whole character arc, I guess you could say, for the world itself as Terry Pratchett evolved and changed as an author. And it's really something beautiful to behold, when you put it all together like that, from the beginning to the very end.
I'm going to miss this world. I'm going to miss having new books to come to in it. But I'm absolutely going to revisit it. How could I not, when I can see the whole picture now?
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was achingly sweet and a crowning achievement. It sounds like it was published posthumously and quite possibly some of it was finished after Terry Pratchett’s death as well. It’s a great story and a very quick read. I enjoyed it immensely.
No need to say that this got emotional pretty fast, and now I'm finished, I can't stop crying.
I'm not even close to having read all the Discworld-books, but I have read all the ones about Tiffany Aching. And even though this book is clearly unfinished, there is nothing to do but love it.
A worthy goodbye from Sir Terry Pratchett - a true master of the written word.
I'm not even close to having read all the Discworld-books, but I have read all the ones about Tiffany Aching. And even though this book is clearly unfinished, there is nothing to do but love it.
A worthy goodbye from Sir Terry Pratchett - a true master of the written word.
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
The star that is missing is just for everything else he could have aded to the book, if the time was given to him. But it's still a very good entry.
Gnuterrypratchett...
Gnuterrypratchett...
There is so much, yet so little, I want to say about this book. It all boils down to you should read it.
Oh waily-waily...
I shall refrain from a full review right now (as it is a few days before the North American release of the book and I don't want any of the books surprises diluted for anyone else).
I will say this: prepare for the tears to come early!
Waily-waily-waily!
When I had finished [b: I Shall Wear Midnight|7576115|I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)|Terry Pratchett|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328232764s/7576115.jpg|9934116], I cried. I was so certain that it would not only be the final Tiffany Achling story, but also the final Discworld book (as it included practically all of the series' elements). It felt that Pterry was saying goodbye 'and they lived happily ever after' with Midnight.
But could a 'happily ever after' ending suit the Discworld series?
One of the driving forces of the overall Discworld series is 'change'. It starts off as a comic fantasy series with many elements of high fantasy in its DNA (with some ideas and plot lines borrowed from our own real history). You begin in a magical world, dominated mostly by humans and the first hint you received that the series is going to be completely different is the 'Wizzard' with a cowardly streak.
The world then changes over its 41 installments.
Ankh-Morpork starts off as a 'wild city' of magic and corruption, which is then slowly tamed by its tyrant government.
The Vimes/Watch novels become engines for political commentary, racial tension and equality (for all of the Disc's 'lesser denizens').
The Moist von Lipwig stories kick-off the industrial revolution (post, banks, trains...and taxes :( ) making the entire world a smaller and safer place, but also effectively changing the series into a steampunk fantasy series (any arguments there)?
No longer would 'and they lived happily ever after' be a sufficient ending for the series; you would need something more like 'and although everything changed, everything was all right in the end...except for times when it wasn't, but the got through those tough bits, bettering themselves in the end'-sort of ending.
This is the type ending that I feel "The Shepherd's Crown" provides.
And that is all I will say about it for now
I shall refrain from a full review right now (as it is a few days before the North American release of the book and I don't want any of the books surprises diluted for anyone else).
I will say this: prepare for the tears to come early!
Waily-waily-waily!
When I had finished [b: I Shall Wear Midnight|7576115|I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)|Terry Pratchett|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328232764s/7576115.jpg|9934116], I cried. I was so certain that it would not only be the final Tiffany Achling story, but also the final Discworld book (as it included practically all of the series' elements). It felt that Pterry was saying goodbye 'and they lived happily ever after' with Midnight.
But could a 'happily ever after' ending suit the Discworld series?
One of the driving forces of the overall Discworld series is 'change'. It starts off as a comic fantasy series with many elements of high fantasy in its DNA (with some ideas and plot lines borrowed from our own real history). You begin in a magical world, dominated mostly by humans and the first hint you received that the series is going to be completely different is the 'Wizzard' with a cowardly streak.
The world then changes over its 41 installments.
Ankh-Morpork starts off as a 'wild city' of magic and corruption, which is then slowly tamed by its tyrant government.
The Vimes/Watch novels become engines for political commentary, racial tension and equality (for all of the Disc's 'lesser denizens').
The Moist von Lipwig stories kick-off the industrial revolution (post, banks, trains...and taxes :( ) making the entire world a smaller and safer place, but also effectively changing the series into a steampunk fantasy series (any arguments there)?
No longer would 'and they lived happily ever after' be a sufficient ending for the series; you would need something more like 'and although everything changed, everything was all right in the end...except for times when it wasn't, but the got through those tough bits, bettering themselves in the end'-sort of ending.
This is the type ending that I feel "The Shepherd's Crown" provides.
And that is all I will say about it for now