Title: Highly disappointing
Review: I was quite prepared to fall in love with this book, and predisposed to patiently follow the dense, somewhat emotionally detached prose in the hope that there would be some kind of epiphany, a moment when I would unlock the deeper meaning behind so much of the mystery in Wicked. It never came. I found this book to be much ado about nothing. I had the sense of sitting through an undergraduate philosophy seminar where 20-year-olds spin theories of about truth and ethics without understanding anything deeper about life or themselves. In the end, I knew Elphaba only slightly better than I did after the first 100 pages, and Glinda, the Wizard, Madam Morrible, and the host of other intriguing characters never really achieved any depth. I'll be seeing the musical in a few months and I have a feeling this is the very rare case when the derivative work will be more satisfying than the original literature.
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