When it started to get good, you are thrown into another story and you start all over. I BARELY got through this book, and it actually made me leary of ever seeing the musical….BAD book. I think my expectations might have been too high because it seemed so interesting, but this was just terribly done.

I have to say the first time I read the book it took me a while. I mean the author chooses names and uses words not common to speaking today. But once I completed the story I had to read it again. Normally these types of books I drive immediately back to the library, but this time was different. I was challenged and the second time I felt as though I had really gotten the story. And I loved it!
Because everyone knows the story of Dorothy, it’s refreshing to see her and the Wicked Witch in a new light. It makes the story more visible, knowing how the Tinman got that way.

Also if you have a chance to see the Musical it is awsome!

What a dull, dreary trainwreck of a book. Every time the story starts to get interesting, the author decides to pause and skip ahead in time, causing all the climaxes to be anticlimatic. The underlying theme of evil is it nature or nurture kind of gets bogged down.

I finally finished this book after nearly a week! Wicked was something of an unauthorized prequel to The Wizard of Oz. It tells the story of Elphie who will later be known as The Wicked Witch of the West. She is not wicked though, only scorn by the fact that everything she tries to accomplish in her life, including winning her own father’s love, fails miserably.

In this tale you’ll learn the origins of The Yellow Brick Road, the ruby slippers and the flying monkeys.

The first three sections of the book were wonderful. I had high hopes for the last section, which is when Dorothy finally comes into play, but the final section disappointed me greatly. It was a chance for the author to tie everything together. To explain and finalize Yackle and the Wizard. To learn more about this other world the Wizard and Dorothy come from and why that Book is so important.

Maybe the subtlety was lost to me, but I gathered no resolution at all from this book. All I really have to say about it was that I was disappointed, although I am glad I read it.