Title: Brilliant concept fails in execution
Review: The idea of telling the story from the witch's point of view is genius. The first half of the novel kept my interest and made me even more curious about how the second half of the novel could possibly create a sensible explanation of the events in The Wizard of Oz. Instead, the second half gets muddled down in a listless plot that fails to provide a satisfactory relationship to either the 1939 movie or Baum's original novel.I'm glad that I read a synopsis of the musical after reading the novel. I think the plot from the musical is a far more interesting answer to the question of who the Wicked Witch of the West was.
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