Title: Where's the good stuff?
Review: While the premise for this book is fantastic, the execution is dull and extremely poor. It seems like every time the book builds towards a big event, there is a chapter break, several years elapse, and we get what should have been a highlight of the book presented in unimpressive flashbacks. I read this book with my wife and there were many times when we would say to each other, "Finally, something is going to happen," only to be disappointed. Sadly, Maguire's writing style is as uninspired as his choice of which events to depict. If you're interested in the Wicked Witch, watch the musical version of _Wicked_. It presents a quite different (but more compelling) story and develops more interesting characters in a few hours than Maguire manages get across in 400 pages.
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