Wintersmith
2006
- young adult fiction
- humor
- winter
- satire
- juvenile fiction
- fairies
- fiction
- witches
- mythology
- fantasy
The story
Tiffany Aching accidentally starts to transform into an anthropomorphic representation of Summer, due to her being unable to resist a good dance, meanwhile the Wintersmith is looking for his destined Mrs who happens to be.... uh oh! Wintersmith is the third title in an exuberant series crackling with energy and humour. It follows The Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky.
What it’s like
Crisp, snow-muffled English village pages with a brisk, wry narrative voice that bounces between sharp comic asides and quiet moments of countryside melancholy. Pratchett's prose here is brisk and quotable, full of footnote-style digressions, dialect-flavoured dialogue, and vivid winter imagery: frost on hedgerows, hard blue skies, the smell of woodsmoke and turned earth, and a chilly, lantern-lit hush over the Chalk. Kidby's illustrations, where the edition includes them, add a bright, painterly warmth to the cold. The vibe is cosy-brisk, mischievous and bittersweet, the kind of read that suits a snowy afternoon, a long train ride, or reading aloud on a winter evening. The pace is lively and episodic, with a coming-of-age arc about a sharp-minded young witch learning what responsibility and self-possession cost, and a playful romance-with-a-deity thread running through it. Intensity is low: peril and creepy moments, some mild scares, no gore, nothing graphic. It is for younger teens and adults who want clever, warm-hearted fantasy with real wit and a gentle edge of winter danger.
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