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Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

12 reviews

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

Aw yeah. I really like the witch books. And this one has theatre!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Sexism, Fatphobia, Child abuse, Blood, Confinement, Violence, Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Torture

Minor: Sexual harassment, Racism, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Child death, Animal death, Kidnapping, Rape, and Mental illness

Mild: Saneism, Slut Shaming

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Self harm and Blood

Minor: Torture

saltycoffee's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Mental illness

Minor: Child death, Animal death, and Torture

oblivious_girl's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

One of my absolute favorite books. It's basically Macbeth from the pov of the witches, but also if you flipped it on its head, twirled it around a little bit then showed it to the mirror and asked its opinion. A wonderful, satirical and cozy romp.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Self harm, Murder, and Blood

The self harm is mostly in reference to the Duke's attempts at washing the blood off his hand. It starts off just in his head but quickly turns to real blood as he keeps scrubbing with various instruments that aren't meant for washing with

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Torture, Violence, and Blood

crufts's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.0

I "read" Wyrd Sisters twice: once in the original novel format and once in the BBC radio play. Both are fun.
Although this is Book 6 of the Discworld series, there's very little connection to the preceding novels and you can read it as a standalone.

The ambitious Lady Felmet has her eyes on the throne of Lancre. She spurs on her husband (Duke Felmet) to murder the ruling King Verence, and the malicious couple ascends to the throne.
Seeing signs and portents that the land itself disagrees with this development, three witches (crotchety Granny Weatherwax, witch-about-town Nanny Ogg, and young-and-nervous Magrat Garlick) decide to set things right again.

Wyrd Sisters is an undisguised parody of Shakespeare's works, especially Macbeth. As a result, there are a lot of funny references - but this also means the plot feels pre-ordained and unsurprising.

But did I read this book for the plot? HELL NO. I read it for the witches! As long as these three brilliant characters were around, it was fun. If this instead was a story about the witches going shopping for groceries, I would probably have enjoyed it all the same.

See my review of the next Witches book here: Witches Abroad.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Death

Minor: Infidelity and Violence

breadwitchery's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Fatphobia, Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Child death, and Torture

itry's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Content warnings that's not a covered tag, yummy and not so yummy food is mentioned frequently
And despite me having tagged a bunch of triggers (for honesty), its more of a case in like a kids tv show like yes technically these dark things are there but few are is triggered by or even notice it due to the general theme and lack of seriousness.
Kinda like cartoon logic, sure theyre doing life threatening things but they're immortal so it doesn't have the same stakes kind of vibe a la roger rabbit, rather than recent gritty dc movies or a horror movie lol
The only really triggering and unnecessary part for me as a survivor of a bunch of bs, is the body shaming of the women

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Abandonment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, and Confinement

Minor: Cursing, Classism, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Torture, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Grief, Body shaming, Xenophobia, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Violence, Excrement, and Gaslighting

woweewhoa's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I had a fun time reading this book! I had, as a whole, enjoyed the Rincewind focused books more as Ive been working through the Discworld books, but this one tickles me just as much, if not more. The elements Macbeth and Hamlet that are put in here really add to the enjoyment for me as well! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual harassment, Racism, and Torture

alrauna's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Murder