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[zahri_melitor]

I just finished "I Shall Wear Midnight" and I'm feeling a little teary-eyed here.

The whole book feels very... final.

I'm sure some of it is me projecting and counting fingers on how many more Discworld books we might expect, and some of it is Pterry himself wondering how many more books he may be able to write, but "I Shall Wear Midnight" feels

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[notalwaysweak]

I get what you mean about how it feels like the last Tiffany/Witches book. I have to wonder if that wasn't intentional on his part, just in case. But I can't think about that too much because it makes me sad.

[zahri_melitor]

I could wave my hands around and talk about parallels (there's almost more parallel to Wee Free Men than anything else in that book), necklaces, time travel, growing up and becoming a woman, and ESK TURNING BACK UP.

But I won't, because crying's not what I need right now.

And sure, if I look at it logically, he did a Guards books in almost the same position way back when (Night Watch), but he's written several more books since then and been diagnosed and the whole job's become so much harder for him.

Plus, Vimes is practically the new Death these days, and he invented the Moist Lipwig books basically to have a function Ankh Morpork perspective to play with as Vimes is just too senior to hang a whole plot one anymore, and Vetinari needed someone new to bully around and shine while doing.

[hawkmoth]

I was given ISWM for Christmas and finished it that day. I actually squeed out loud in front of my whole family when I got to the OMG ESK! bit.

I'm trying not to think about it maybe being the last Tiffany book...

[zahri_melitor]

I mean, ESK. She reappeared! And she explained exactly why no one has seen hide nor hare of her for 22 books (seriously. Brutha and Simon get more mentions than she has. The only storyline with LESS references is Djelibaybi, and it sort of sucked itself into a black hole, so of course no one remembers or talks about it).

I love Tiffany so much (I can even forgive her her chapters, because she gets chapter headings, which is a nice bonus not to be sneezed at), but damn ISWM spent a lot of time signalling that the storyline was getting tied up. I mean, the epilogue contained the new necklace, and her first black dress. She's 'grown'.