Keep going! This book started off really slow but picked up with a bang. I will never look at the wicked witch the same. Great reading..........
We are not in Kansas anymore... Reading this book satisfied my curiosity about the "other" characters in fairy tales. I always wondered what happened to make them, especially the mean ones they way they are. This book tells the tale of Elphie, the Wicked Witch. It also tells the story of her sister, the Witch of the East, who meets her doom as we all know, under Dorothy's house. I thought this was a great story, but it was not an easy tale to read. I would recommed reasing the real stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum, as many of the characters and places in "Wicked" come from those stories, rather than the famous musical. This story is much darker than the technicolor tale we all know so well, so poceed with caution if you are looking for a happy ending.Not Wicked, just BAD! This book just doesn't match up to L.Frank Baum's classic one bit and I don't think it was intended to. While I can appreciate Maguire's attempt at a more adult-themed version of the life and times of the so called "Wicked" Witch of the West, I just couldn't stay awake through the fluff of Shiz, the Vinkus and predictable murder itself. I really wish I hadn't read the book at all and I hope the musical is much better.
