I Shall Wear Midnight

Name: I Shall Wear Midnight
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780061433054

2010368 pagesHarperCollins

Tiffany Aching is sixteen and the witch of the Chalk — the only one for miles — dealing with everything that entails: births, deaths, arguments, and a girl beaten nearly to death for being pregnant. But something is spreading through the countryside, something ancient that hates witches — a hatred that turns neighbours into mobs. The fourth Tiffany Aching novel is Pratchett at his most serious, dealing with witch trials, mob violence, and what it actually takes to hold a community together.

Avg. reading time: 8h 11m
Prose complexity: 6/10

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Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...

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Tiffany AchingProtagonist

Sixteen years old, the official witch of the Chalk, and fighting something that wants to make everyone around her believe she is dangerous.

The Cunning ManAntagonist

An ancient entity of hatred — the accumulated prejudice of generations of witch-burning, given form. One of the Discworld's most genuinely disturbing antagonists.

PrestonSupporting

A young guard-soldier who is unexpectedly intelligent and asks good questions — a new relationship for Tiffany.

Eskarina SmithCameo

The first female wizard from Equal Rites (1987), appearing here in a brief but meaningful cameo after more than twenty books' absence.