Fantasy - 3 1/2 stars
Discworld -- Book 35, Tiffany Aching -- Book 3
About to turn 13, Tiffany's latest witch "instructor" takes her to the dance that marks the changing of the seasons. Warned not to join the dance, Tiffany cannot resist the music and catches the eye and heart of the Wintersmith. The results are not good ----- I thoroughly enjoyed the first two Tiffany Aching books. This one seems weaker. It's not bad, it just seems a bit slower than the others. It may be because the Wee Free Men are given a more peripheral place in the story. Their humor is missed. The imaginative originality so evident in the first two books is front and center in the section about what to do when a witch dies, but less so in the rest of the story. Tiffany's solution to having the spirit of winter in love with her doesn't seem as well thought out as the solutions reached in the earlier books. That being said, I'm still looking forward to Book 4 since that is the book that was recommended to me and the one that started me on the Tiffany Aching series.
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