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Magic and mischief are afoot, threatening to spoil the royal wedding of king verence and his favorite witch, magrat garlick. I will say that the only witches book ive read is carpe jugulum, and i never felt lost reading this one. Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, terry pratchett s bestselling discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Like all of pratchetts discworld books, lords and ladies is highly entertaining and amazingly well written. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Like all of pratchett s discworld books, lords and ladies is highly entertaining and amazingly well written. Lords and ladies is a fantasy novel by british writer terry pratchett, the fourteenth discworld book. Terry pratchetts 1992 discworld novel the 14th lords and ladies describes a similarly negative vision of elves. I have since perused alternate witches books, yet despite everything i think this one is the best.
Granny weatherwax and the witches of the kingdom of lancre must halt an infestation of faerie trash that brings the kingdom to its knees and disrupts the royal wedding and the annual dance. Read the book on paper it is quite a powerful experience. The crop circles are turning up everywhereeven on the mustard and cress of pewseyy ogg, aged four. The gallery annotation is that whilst kirby normally loved working on a pratchett book, this one was a frustrating nightmare.
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