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Weird sisters on holiday
A review by spiralmonkey on Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
February 21st, 2004


Author's product rating:   Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett - rated by spiralmonkey

Would you listen to it again? Absolutely 
Story Good 
Characters Outstanding 
Listenability Pretty compelling but not addictive 
How does it compare to similar audio books? Excellent 
How does it compare to audio works by the same author? Very good 

Advantages: Very readable, very funny
Disadvantages: Not many that I can see

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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I loved this book. The characters are more fully rounded here, being fleshed-out with little personality tics that both endear them to you and make them easy to identify with. They become almost like old friends.

I really liked the use of fables, folklore and urban myths as a narrative to pin the story to. This is a modern day morality tale, but with better dialogue. Good is good (sometimes - a bit crotchety, a bit judgemental maybe and definately a bit grubby), and bad is very bad all the time, but with a great deal of style and an eye for detail.

A small criticism of this book is that as the main players are very well defined, it can be a bit difficult to make it believable when they act out of character - but that is a very minor niggle. It can be a difficult trick to take characters out of their normal setting without them acting differently, so maybe I'm getting a bit Esmerelda Weatherwax-ish and judging too harshly.... All in all, one of my favourites. 
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