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Everlost

Neal Shusterman

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Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where...

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The Loch

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On the beautiful, haunting shores of Scotland’s iconic Loch Ness, amid a community sustained by...

Whodunit

Slither (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles #11)

Joseph Delaney

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"My name is Slither, and before my tale is finished you'll find out why." The dark is full of...

Unlawful Contact (I-Team #3)

Pamela Clare

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Journalist Sophie Alton is investigating the disappearance of a young mother named Megan, recently...

The Nemesis Charm

Daniel Ingram-Brown

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They say only the dead can cross a Threshold, the dead and those who have faced a Nemesis Charm.When...

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Mad about the Boy

Beth Laycock

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Something’s waiting for Eli. Somebody’s watching his every move... Eli is used to looking...

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David McK (3372 KP) rated Hogfather in Books

Dec 27, 2022

Hogfather

Terry Pratchett | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry

9.2

(6 Ratings)

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The 20th (of 41) Discworld book, this is Terry Pratchett's seasonal tale, with his character of Death (HO. HO. HO) temporarily having to take over from the Hogfather: Discworld's version of Santa Claus while his grandaughter Susan attempts to find out what has happened to the real thing.

This also a subplot concerning the wizards of Unseen University, and is the novel to come up with such delights as the Sock Monster (remember all those missing socks you have? Exactly.) and the Oh God of hangovers, alongside the Verruca Gnome and the Jolly Fairy - all of which have been created by the 'spare belief' sloshing around when people stop believing in the Hogfather. It's also good to see an, essentially, extended cameo by Nobby Nobbs, while some of the footnotes scattered throughout did have me laughing out loud.