Terry Pratchett - The Tiffany Aching Series

Terry Pratchett has written two books about Tiffany Aching up to now, which I finished reading last week. Tiffany is a young girl trying to become a witch. In the first book --- "The wee free men" --- she has to save her little brother (Who is always crying for sweets - reminds me of the abbot in "Thief of time") who has been stolen by the Queen of Fairies. Book 2 --- "A hat full of sky"--- tells about her apprenticeship with an elder witch. Thereby Tiffany is occupied by an evil demon who steals people's thoughts.

This may all sound a bit frightening, but it is however quite funny. The fun comes mostly out of the supporting characters. Tiffany makes friends with the Nac Mac Feegle - a clan of six-inch-high blue men always looking for a fight (and if there is none, they'll fight each other). These guys are quite funny (but not very bright...) and also had a small appearance in one of the real witch-novels, "Carpe Jugulum". Furthermore discworld's greatest witch of all --- Granny Weatherwax --- has got her appearances and is really part of the story in the second book.

The Tiffany-Aching-series is not as complex to read as other discworld novels, mainly because it is targeted at younger readers. (Yes, I read children's books!) However, it is really funny, apart from the first third of the second book being a little bit weak.