Book Review - A Hat Full of Sky

By Terry Pratchett

Oh how I miss my books! The food to my soul, the chocolate to my brains, the tv of my eyes...... Trust me, that's how you'll feel if you are an avid book reader who comes to Fiji. Unfortunately, we sadly lack in that intellectual department, not because we don't have the resources or can't afford it, but because it is not impressed upon our children here. Society here doesn't regard it as a very rewarding activity in general. While there are those of us who do appreciate books, some of us who cannot afford them, most of the population in GENERAL, do not appreciate them.

Anyway, on with my latest review - one of the few books of Terry Pratchett that I have not yet read.

A Hat Full of Sky is about a young budding witch called Tiffany Aching who once defeated the Fairy Queen with nothing but a frying pan and earned the respect of the most powerful witch in all Disc World - GrannyWeatherwax. In this book, her guardians, the little outcasts of fairy world, the Nac MacFeegles, discover that an ancient form of life, one that lives in powerful hosts, is now after Tiffany. It wishes to possess her and follows her to her new place of abode and to a new teacher, a witch called Ms Levy. Except that Ms Levy is divided into two, literally.

While training under Ms Levy, Tiffany fails to disclose her secret ability and this is what leads to her being finally posssed by the Hiver, the ancient life form. It is a story filled with inventive antics of the miscievous, trouble making Nac MacFeegles who are under a geas to protect her and the intervention of the greatest witch of all times, Granny Weatherwax herself!

Under Granny Weatherwax's guidance and Tiffany's grandmother's love, she discovers the powers within herself to overcome the thing that is hunting her. She also makes new friends and enemies, the beginning of what seems to be another Granny, Nanny Org and Margaret circle. Not as much laughs and witty humour as in some of his other books, but definitely entertaining and captivating. Another Terry Pratchett hit! :)

My Rating....... 3.5 out of 5