That’s rich fare, and if Pratchett would revisit it to some degree more effectively and powerfully in Hogfather, that doesn’t detract from the great ideas he’s tossing around here.īut none of that really has any impact on just how much fun reading Witches Abroad is.
(It would hit that landmark in a big way in the next book, Small Gods.) That’s not to say that Pratchett had nothing to say here Witches Abroad is fascinated by the power of stories in our lives, from urban legends to fairy tales, and how we so often use the power of stories to override sense and logic, throwing our lives and passion after a plot line that always works on paper. What it also meant was returning to a time when Terry Pratchett wasn’t quite using the series to explore profound truths like he would later. What a joy it was to realize that there was a Discworld book I hadn’t read! Witches Abroad was the 12th Discworld book, which means that coming to it late means going back to a Discworld where the Watch is still a bit of a joke, where Tiffany Aching has yet to emerge, and where so many of the social changes with regard to the less human creatures of the Disc had yet to occur.
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