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I have avoided Pratchett and Discworld for so long. I'd read Good Omens and discovered that type of humor that I just don't like, the Douglas Adams way of pointing out how clever and funny it is, without it being actually funny. That drives me crazy. Give me sarcasm or actual humor over clever.

But I kept hearing about the Tiffany Aching set of books, a young adult subset of the Discworld books intended for younger readers (or at least marketed that way) about a young witch who is just discovering her path. In this book she is only 9, but is written much wiser than that, tasked with protecting an annoying younger brother who whines for sweets until he is kidnapped by the Fairy Queen of another world. Tiffany only has her intelligence and a frying pan, and an ability to make cheese? Yeah, okay, I admit it, I'm being won over by the silly. I am giving it three stars because I'm resisting and thought it was a little uneven - is it about the wee free men, or about Tiffany? I did like it well enough to read the next one.