The Shepherd's Crown

De: Terry Pratchett

Narrado por: Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy, Steven Cree

Fantasy grandmaster Sir Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, and the fifth to feature the witch Tiffany Aching.

A SHIVERING OF WORLDS

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.

As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.

There will be a reckoning. . . .

THE FINAL DISCWORLD NOVEL

• The five funny and fabulous Tiffany Aching adventures are:
• The Wee Free Men
• A Hat Full of Sky
• Wintersmith
• I Shall Wear Midnight
• The Shepherd’s Crown

Tiffany’s mentors, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, star in the novels Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, and Carpe Jugulum.

And don’t miss Terry Pratchett’s hilarious and wise Discworld novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents!

Stellar cast

I'm in awe of Indira Varma's range in acting and regional British dialects. The entire cast is excellent, but Varma really shines. The story itself is fascinating and unexpected, like every Terry Pratchett story I've read, but this novel has more poignance because it's the last one Pratchett completed. I didn't want it to end.

A Crowning Achievement

I loved this book.
I highly recommend reading the other Disc World Series first.
This is Terry Pratchett’s final book. So, please get acquainted with the world before enjoying this one.

Happy tears over here.
Wonderful works.

Here’s to the Women

I love that this is Terry’s legacy—the last gift he gave us. A celebration of young women and old women and self assured women and stuttering women and thin women and fat women and women who respect each other and women who challenge each other. Women who choose career and women who choose love. Women who choose solitude and women who choose companionship. No woman is singled out as the ideal or correct way to be a woman. This book and series celebrates the many ways in which women demonstrate strength.

The Tiffany Aching saga and the associated Witches saga are a masterclass in how to celebrate women and raise strong ones.

The performance by all the actors was tremendous. I was sobbing at the dedication alone. And yet, at the end of the tale, I was dry eyed. I was hopeful. This book is such a beautiful treatise on the value of a life and a legacy while also a celebration of the future.

If I took one message from this book it’s to learn from our past and to hold it as sacred, but to always look forward and forge your own way. Here’s to Tiffany and to Esmeralda and to all the other amazing, powerful women from Ankh-Morpork to The Chalk to Lancre.

Outstanding!

I started this series thinking it would be something cute now and then; well, it is that but ended up being so much more. My husband and I ended up loving this story and listened to the whole series together. Terry was one excellent storyteller to keep everything straight at the end.

A beautiful way to end things

I will forever hold the Tiffany Aching Adventures close to my heart 🥹 these characters will forever be etched in my mind and this last book might be my favorite out of all of them.

I loved that it kept reminding that you could be a witch no matter who you were and I really loved the addition of Geoffrey.

Very sad this was Terry’s last book written but it was beautifully done and I can’t wait to read his backlog.