By: Danielle Paige Plot: A teenage girl Amy, from Kansas, is swept up in a hurricane and lands in Oz, the Oz. Except Dorothy and all her friends are evil and the wicked witches are the good guys. So now it's up to Amy to kill Dorothy and save all of Oz, obviously.
My thoughts: Clearly this writer never had to do a 'show not tell' exercise in English class. All she does is tell and tell and tell. I really did not like the writing in this book at all. If the plot had been amazing I could probably have gotten passed that but it was not great either. There is no original story here at all. (I mean had she never heard of the book, turned into amazing play, called Wicked?!) There is no world building either because the author just banks on the fact that you've seen the movie and compares everything to it.
The main character is one I've read a million times before with nothing original about her at all. I didn't like her or any of the other characters. Amy is just your typical angry, 'poor me' attitude having, teenage girl. She felt bad enough for herself that I didn't have any sympathy towards her at all. The characters, plot, and writing were all just terrible. If just ONE of them had been good I could probably have made it through this book. As it is, I have no desire to pick this book up ever again.
Rating: 0/5 I could not finish this book. Life is too short to suffer through books this bad. It was such a disappointment.