![]() ' Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own' The TimesĮqual Rites is the first book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. ' If you've never read a Discworld novel, what's the matter with you?' Guardian With Granny's help, Esk sneaks her way into the magical Unseen University and befriends apprentice wizard Simon.īut power is unpredictable, and these bright young students soon find themselves in a whole new dimension of trouble. Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld's most famous witch, has plenty of experience ignoring the status quo. The book covers the process up to puberty roughly and stops there. Because I have read the earlier books, it is interesting to follow this argument in the disc world. ![]() So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants nothing to do with her. Equal rites is a very pleasant little story about wizards and witches and a woman trying to grow up and develop as a wizard in the 'masculine by tradition' Wizard world. ![]() 'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.'Įverybody knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. ![]()
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