Title: A Grand Disappointment
Review: I was the only one out of the five women in my book club to finish Wicked, and I advised them not to bother reading to the end. Gregory Maguire had such a clever idea to look at a beloved story from another angle - and he squandered it! It felt like he was trying too hard to copy Tolkien in that you had to keep checking the map to look up countries and their inhabitants. He threw in weird sexually explicit references that didnt contribute at all to the story (the one with the tiger was really weird and never explained).This book was a huge disappointment to a true Oz fan (I have read many of the Oz books in the series).
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