TL DR: Equal Rites is a lighthearted, picaresque novel reminding the reader that women can be wizards, too, and that it’s okay to defy “the way it always has been” ’cause you may just be saving the world. I certainly expect to reread it at least a few more times before Death comes to tell me YOU’VE NO IDEA HOW HORRIBLE IT IS TO BE AN ANT. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett Reviews: 3 reviews Add to cart £3.49 New RRP £6. Monsters and alternative dimensions make an appearance, as does the Librarian (who only says “Ook”) and Death (who only speaks LIKE THIS IN CAPITAL LETTERS).Ī quintessential Pratchett novel, Equal Rites is a perfect combination of humor and fantasy, and an excellent choice for anyone who doesn’t mind a meandering, light-hearted fantasy story that addresses broader themes. The novel introduces the character of Granny Weatherwax, who reappears in several later Discworld novels. 5/5: I just recently re-visited this book after a couple years away from it. The title is wordplay on the phrase 'Equal Rights'.

Published in 1987, it is the third novel in the Discworld series and the first in which the main character is not Rincewind. The novel follows their journey(s) to Ankh-Morpork, where the Unseen University is located, attempt(s) to enroll Esk into the U^2, and all sorts of encounters with people telling (or saying) Esk can’t be a wizard because she’s a girl. Equal Rites is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett. Mitton, 'Mormon in the Fiery Furnace, Or Loftes Tryk Goes to Cambridge,' Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Sir Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3) (Discworld Novels) 2012 paperback Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd The Sunday Times.

Her magic manifests as she grows, until the point that the local witch (Granny Weatherwax) decides she must take Esk away from the girl’s hometown of Bad Ass to find the Unseen University, where she can receive a proper wizard’s education. Equal Rites is about Esk, who was accidentally gifted a wizard’s staff at her birth (she was the eighth child of an eighth son, after all), sealing her destiny as a wizard-to-be.

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