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A review by roadtripreader
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
funny
slow-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
I finally got to meet Nanny Ogg, the Nanny Ogg and let me just say, she had me cackling. I'm a ride or die for Granny Weatherwax we go way back, eh ... well as far back as 3 books ago when she was getting her grandaughter into wizard school. Still, that's real witch legend G-Weatherwax.
These three witches are a coven, the coven no matter how uncovenly they are and I love them for it. It's Headology 😉
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Discworld plots be plotting the way they plot. This one ia no different. The picture gets painted from all 4 corners of the canvas moving inward until the hilarious climatic end that's a dot or x marks the spot right at the center.
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
🧙♀️Granny Weatherwax from Equal Rites is here! I feel like she's my own magical granma and I haven't seen her in a while and look, what ho!? Witches!
🧙♀️I feel like I've met a Magrat Garlick before. Or I might be a Magrat to some degree.
🧙♀️Nanny Ogg is an unlikely empress- what a family.
■I take it back. Lady Macbeth has nothing on Duchess Felmet Oohwee, now that's a snake.
■The Fool is a genius but tradition being what it is...oh well.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
🧙♀️Granny Weatherwax watching one of them plays
🧙♀️Three Good witches and Three good gifts
🧙♀️The coven's Invocation in Nanny Ogg's washhouse
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Back down on the plains, if you kicked people they kicked back. Up here, when you kicked people they moved away and just waited patiently for your leg to fall off” (yep. Sounds about Ramtop-esque)
🖤 “Words are just words. Brief syllables. Sticks and stones may break my bones—’ he paused, savouring the thought – ‘but words can never hurt me.’ ‘My lord, there are such words that can,’ said the Fool. ‘Liar! Usurper!
Murderer!’” (That Fool is no fool)
🖤 “Nanny believed that a bit of thrilling and pointless terror was an essential ingredient of the magic of childhood.” (Nanny Ogg be my grandma please🙏🏼)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Ramtop Mountains, Bad Ass😂 Hogswatchnight, Hangdog
■The Crown👑, The Ghost, The Duke
■Taxes, headology, Witch's thrall, Greebo
■Nanny Ogg's Discworld club bangers:
🎵‘The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All’.
🎵A Wizard’s Staff Has A Knob On The End.
■Discworld Theatre
GR Rating: 4.5⭐
CAWPILE: 9
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Fantasy Books by 2025
These three witches are a coven, the coven no matter how uncovenly they are and I love them for it. It's Headology 😉
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Discworld plots be plotting the way they plot. This one ia no different. The picture gets painted from all 4 corners of the canvas moving inward until the hilarious climatic end that's a dot or x marks the spot right at the center.
Two Sentences, A Scene or less - Characters:
🧙♀️Granny Weatherwax from Equal Rites is here! I feel like she's my own magical granma and I haven't seen her in a while and look, what ho!? Witches!
🧙♀️I feel like I've met a Magrat Garlick before. Or I might be a Magrat to some degree.
🧙♀️Nanny Ogg is an unlikely empress- what a family.
■I take it back. Lady Macbeth has nothing on Duchess Felmet Oohwee, now that's a snake.
■The Fool is a genius but tradition being what it is...oh well.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene:
🧙♀️Granny Weatherwax watching one of them plays
🧙♀️Three Good witches and Three good gifts
🧙♀️The coven's Invocation in Nanny Ogg's washhouse
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Back down on the plains, if you kicked people they kicked back. Up here, when you kicked people they moved away and just waited patiently for your leg to fall off” (yep. Sounds about Ramtop-esque)
🖤 “Words are just words. Brief syllables. Sticks and stones may break my bones—’ he paused, savouring the thought – ‘but words can never hurt me.’ ‘My lord, there are such words that can,’ said the Fool. ‘Liar! Usurper!
Murderer!’” (That Fool is no fool)
🖤 “Nanny believed that a bit of thrilling and pointless terror was an essential ingredient of the magic of childhood.” (Nanny Ogg be my grandma please🙏🏼)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ Ramtop Mountains, Bad Ass😂 Hogswatchnight, Hangdog
■The Crown👑, The Ghost, The Duke
■Taxes, headology, Witch's thrall, Greebo
■Nanny Ogg's Discworld club bangers:
🎵‘The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All’.
🎵A Wizard’s Staff Has A Knob On The End.
■Discworld Theatre
GR Rating: 4.5⭐
CAWPILE: 9
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Fantasy Books by 2025