Terry Pratchett. The Shepherds Crown. Corgi Books, London 978-0-552-57447-1.
The 41st, and last, Discworld novel, and the 5th featuring Tiffany Aching. The novel was mostly complete when Terry died in early 2015. According to his personal assistant and amanuensis Rob Wilkins, the book was not quite what Terry would have liked, and he would have written more. Neil Gaiman has revealed Terry wanted to write a different epilogue, for which there are a number of pointers throughout the book, but died before he had the chance to make the revision.
Despite being not quite completed, there is a complete story, and it's a good one. The novel also brings a degree of closure to some of the disparate threads making up the Discworld. There were places where I felt there was a bit of hand-waving or glossing over of detail, where scenes seemed in need of a bit of fleshing out, but I'm glad this was published and didn't end up going under the steam-roller (in 2017, per Terry's instructions, his computer hard drive, with all the drafts and story ideas he was working on when he died, was destroyed by being run over by a steam roller).
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