Title: Rich, thoughtful look at Oz through the Wicked Witch's eyes
Review: This new novel set in the Land of Oz resembles nothing written by Oz creator L. Frank Baum. Elphaba and Nessarose Thropp were both born with rather unusual qualities, Elphaba being green and her sister Nessarose armless, but both attended Shiz University and became rulers of their respective kingdoms of Winkie Country and Munchkinland. Elphaba, eventually known as the Witch of the West, is a well-constructed and engaging character. One might expect a revisionist tale to turn Dorothy and her companions into villains, but Maguire is too good a writer to do this. Instead, he lets the reader see the meeting between Dorothy and the Wicked Witch from Elphaba's point of view, with its tragic, but somehow inevitable, consequences. The Baum contingent may disagree, but I could quite comfortably put "Wicked" on the same shelf with the original Oz books
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