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ASIN: 0552134651
ID #114662
Witches Abroad (Discworld)   (Rated: 13+)
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: A E Willcox Author Icon
Review Rated: 13+
Amazon's Price: $ 6.29
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Summary of this Book...
"This is a story about stories.

Or what it really means to be a fairy godmother.
But it's also, particularly, about reflections and mirrors."

This is the third book in the Discworld witches series.

Fairy godmothers develop a very deep understanding about human nature, which makes the good ones kind and the bad ones powerful.

Inheriting a fairy godmother role seemed an easy job… after all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn’t marry a prince?

Quite hard, it turns out, even for Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick. The problem with real-life is it tends to get in the way of a good story, and a good story is hard to resist.

Servant girls have to marry the prince, whether they want to or not. You can’t fight a Happy Ending, especially when it comes with glass slippers and a rival Fairy Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can’t refuse.
Further Comments...
The three witches (plus Nanny Ogg's cat Greebo) need to travel to 'foreign parts' (Genua)

On the journey, they encounter a vampire; deal with a briar entangled castle with a spinning wheel and a sleeping girl; they 'experience' a bull run; on a paddle-boat, Granny Weatherwax wins back all the money Nanny Ogg lost playing Cripple Mr Onion (a card game) and they come across a yellow-brick road.

In Genua, the witches meet Mrs Gogol the local swamp witch and voodoo lady who helps them fight the story of the servant girl marrying the prince.

All I can say is if you don't find this book funny at all there's really no help for you.
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