A Hat Full of Sky

, #32

First US edition, 278 pages

English language

Published June 2004 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-058660-7
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OCLC Number:
54005706
ISFDB ID:
27027

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2 stars (1 review)

Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic – not chores and ill-tempered goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this.

What Tiffany doesn’t know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six-inch-high Wee Free Men can protect her. In the end, it will take all of Tiffany’s inner strength to save herself… if it can be done at all.

The second book in the Tiffany Aching sequence.

19 editions

Can't stand on its own

2 stars

This is the second book in the "Tiffany Achings" series, following the excellent Wee Free Men—which I read thrice when I first encountered it!

Why am I talking about the first book? Well, because much of this book is dedicated to recap or summarize parts of it. Characters are reintroduced in detail and relevant plot points are retold in great detail. BUT, these recaps focus very much on the content and "facts" without repeating the witty prose, jokes and puns that accompanied these events in the first book. Overall, these parts just make you want to reread the first book to (re-)experience these events properly.

Next to retellings of the first book we thankfully do get a new plot and some new quirky characters. But overall, I'd say that these new characters aren't as interesting and the plot is also not as exciting. Our protagonist Tiffany is very passive …

Subjects

  • Witches -- Juvenile Fiction
  • Fairies -- Juvenile Fiction
  • Monsters -- Juvenile Fiction