The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
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| Terry Pratchett |
This is the book ment for young adults really but its written as well as the adult books and I love reading Terry Pratchett no reading list is compleate without him! This is the book in which we first meet a girl called Tiffany Arching. A teen who lives on a sheep farm in what is called the chalk. She has many sisters but only one brother who is very much younger than she is.
Tiffany is a very down to earth girl who is very inqusitive and loves learning and reading. She spends lots of time out on the feilds with the sheep as she prefers her own company.
It is in the fields where her adventure begins, it all starts with her bashing a river fairy 'Jenny Green teeth' with a frying pan when the fairy tries to steal her away and drown her in a river. Then there is the headless horseman and nightmears comming down from the hills, things come to a head when Tiffanys brother is stolen away by the Queen of the Fairys. Tiffany has little affection for the child but see's it as her duty to go into fairyland and rescue her brother because its something that only she can do.
Errr well not quite on her own she has the help of small blue Pictsies known as The Wee Free Men. It is worth reading the book just to read about the most unusuall faries modern fiction has come up with.
It is not a very long book as I know that many of Terrys books can be so I would recomend this book if you were new to reading books about the Discworld. It shows his writing style beautifully and is really hard to put down. I love the Tiffany Arching series this is the first book others include A Hatfull of Sky, The WinterSmith and I shall ware midnight. All of which I have read and most of which I own! It didnt take me long to read so I would recomend this story to those who dont have time to sit and read for hours like I do.
I give this book full marks its funny and light harted and compleatly uncomlicated as so many Si-fi books can be.
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