Title: why all the hype?
Review: Wicked was one of our book club selections. It was fairly poorly recieved. Our group felt it was hard to sympathize with or relate to any of the characters. We also felt the authors writing style wasn't consistent throughout the book. For example, early in the book the conversations between characters are formal and somewhat stilted. Later on while characters are discussing the unfortunate death of Glinda the prose is rather ribald. We also felt that it seemed somewhat incongruous for negative and nasty Elphaba to 'carry the torch' for the Animals cause. We are not planning on reading the sequel. We could care less...
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