This is a very clever and incredibly well thought out back story for the life of the Wicked Witch of the West. Unfortunately, it is a way I too long and detailed and doesn’t manage to effectively tie the details to the big picture all the way through the book. The page by page reading experience isn’t boring exactly, but the reader gets mired down in seemingly irrelevant details and only on later reflection does it actually seem clever. Perhaps with some severe editing this book would be a real gem.