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bookofkell, July 8, 2006

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett

In a weird twist of fate, I (the innocent reader) picked up this Discworld novel soon after reading Mercedes Lackey?s Fairy Godmother--and found it to be a twist on similar ideas. Witches Abroad was published first (copyright 1991, compared to Lackey?s 2004), and neither is in any way a copy of the other. Think retelling, reimagining, perhaps even another form of The Tradition...

But here we have a dead Fairy Godmother, who leaves three witches to rectify a story gone bad. On the way, they encounter all sorts of odd effects from an evil godmother intent on making stories come true--including (my absolute favorite) a house that drops unexpectedly on the reinforced hat of Nanny Ogg, whereupon a crowd of dwarves appear with a strange urge to take her red boots.

Of course, this being Terry Pratchett, things get much, much odder, and there will be strange incidents involving pumpkins, zombies, card sharks, and even gumbo before the tale is through.

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