A Hat Full of Sky

407 pages

English language

Published Nov. 3, 2005 by HarperTrophy.

ISBN:
9780060586621
OCLC Number:
60611280

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2 stars (1 review)

Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.

18 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
  • Witches -- Fiction
  • Fairies -- Fiction
  • Monsters -- Fiction