Book review: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

Book:The Wee Free Men

Author:Terry Pratchett

Year published: 2003

Genre: Comic fantasy

Rating: 10/10

Review: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett is a great book.  Not just a good one, a great on. One of the best parts of the book is the protagonist.  Tiffany Aching is a 9 year old girl who lives on a far on the Chalk, a region of Discworld. Tiffany wants to be a witch because, a while ago, her neighbors killed an old woman because they thought she was a witch and she wants to stop that from happening again. When Tiffany reads, she thinks. Tiffany has first sight and second thoughts, which means that she sees what is really there and thinks about it.

Another great part of The Wee Free Men is the title characters.  The Wee Free Men (also known as pictsies, the Nac Mac Feegle and other terms) are little creatures.  They are immensely strong, very mischievous, not that smart (in some ways) and have a fairly complex social structure which I will let you discover for yourselves.

Also making brief appearances are Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax, two witches who readers of the Discworld series may be familiar with.

The Wee Free Men is a "young adult" novel, but here "young" should be interpreted as "not dead yet". Yes, the hero is a child and no, there are no sex scenes.  But Tiffany Aching is a hero for the ages and for all ages.

About the Author:Terry Pratchett was the author of the Discworld series and other books.