Title: Magically Creative
Review: Gregory Maguire reinvents Oz like you've never imagined it, following Dorothy's nemesis The Wicked Witch of the West. It begins with her birth and follows her life until her fateful encounter with the little girl from Kansas.Maguire instigates an entire discussion on the nature of evil with this book. The Wicked Witch, or Elphaba as she is known comes off as a heroine through alot of the book, and some of the other classic and cherished characters such as Glinda come off as merely a petulant spoiled brat. Part of the fun of the novel is how these characters beyond Dorothy's world interact, and how the land of Oz is designed with as much if not more political turmoil than what we know in our world. Richly imagined, I found the book fascinating although I did think it dragged a bit towards the end.
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