History YMMV / TheShepherdsCrown

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Geoffrey could have helmed an entire book in his desire to be a witch, made all the more difficult by his being a man trying to establish himself in an otherwise entirely female profession. While he is taken on as Tiffany's "backhouse boy," this is set up as an excuse for him to do witch's work without having to explain to the people about a male witch, and he winds up only having a few scenes. Or, at least in a different book, considering that Agnes Nitt had a [[Literature/{{Maskerade}} book]] only after a few lines in a previous "Lancre Witch" book; but Terry Prachett's death pit a crimp in any (potential) plans.

* BrokenBase: Being the very last Discworld book, being published after Sir Terry's passing, it was bound to be this. Fans are split on whether it is the series going out with a bang, a whimper, [[TakeAThirdOption or somewhere in-between.]]

** One that is eclusive to the French translation: since death is a female noun but '''Death''' is a male character every book he features in contain a note clearing that up, often including a joke (such as [[LongRunner suggesting the reader to read the 35 previous books he did not know already]]) ; this time it reads "Alright, we remind you once more that Death is a male but this is the last time!".

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Geoffrey could have helmed an entire book in his desire to be a witch, made all the more difficult by his being a man trying to establish himself in an otherwise entirely female profession. While he is taken on as Tiffany's "backhouse boy," this is set up as an excuse for him to do witch's work without having to explain to the people about a male witch, and he winds up only having a few scenes.
** Or, at least in a different book, considering that Agnes Nitt had a [[Literature/{{Maskerade}} book]] only after a few lines in a previous "Lancre Witch" book; but AuthorExistenceFailure pit a crimp in any (potential) plans....

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Geoffrey could have helmed an entire book in his desire to be a witch, made all the more difficult by his being a man trying to establish himself in an otherwise entirely female profession. Instead he's more or less brushed aside by Tiffany, who outright states that he's not a witch and most of the book is spent focusing on other things.

** One that is eclusive to the French translation: since death is a female noun but [[AC: Death]] is a male character every book he features in contain a note clearing that up, often including a joke (such as [[LongRunner suggesting the reader to read the 35 previous books he did not know already]]) ; this time it reads "Alright, we remind you once more that Death is a male but this is the last time!".

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: When the chips are down and you're defending the innocent from someone who won't see reason, ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer. As long as you don't enjoy it.

* AssPull: The goblin that the Elves capture early in the book somehow manages to pass through the gate more than once with pockets full of pieces of iron, which he later uses to escape his captors by throwing them in the elves faces. Why the elves didn't search him for weapons left unexplained.

* AssPull: The goblin that the Elves capture early in the book somehow manages to pass through the gate more than once with pockets full of pieces of iron, which he later uses to escape his captors by throwing them in the elves faces. Why the elves didn't search him for weapons, and why he didn't use this to avoid capture in the first place are left unexplained.

** Or, at least in a different book, considering that Agnes Nitt had a [[Discworld/{{Maskerade}} book]] only after a few lines in a previous "Lancre Witch" book; but AuthorExistenceFailure pit a crimp in any (potential) plans....

** The fact that he managed to pass with the iron filings at all goes against everything we know about the place. In 'Lords and Ladies', Nanny Ogg has to get a very special piece of iron to pass in there, and it's something of a moment of awesome for her and her son the blacksmith.
*** It's the magnetic iron pillars that guard the entrances to fairyland in Lancre that made it difficult to get iron through, not an inherent property of the elves' homeland. Thus why Tiffany was able to take an iron frying pan into fairyland in The Wee Free Men.