Thursday, March 5, 2015

Dorothy Must Die

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige, 452 pages


Amy is just an ordinary Kansas girl.  She’s not always happy, especially since her father left her and her mother and they had to move to a trailer park.  The other kids at school make fun of her because they’re poor, but basically she’s really just an average person, until a tornado picks up her trailer and drops her in Oz.  Oz isn’t quite what she imagined.  Dorothy is back in Oz and Oz doesn’t look quite right.  It’s not as vibrant and colorful as she imagined and apparently it’s all because of Dorothy.  She is stealing the magic from the land and torturing its people.  Amy falls in with a group of witches who call themselves wicked but are dedicated to overthrowing Dorothy.  They think Amy is the only person who can do it, but to accomplish this task, Amy is going to have to kill Dorothy.  This is an interesting take on Oz and what might have happened after the original stories.  It’s a little hard for me, who has read all of the original Oz books, to believe.  This is not the Dorothy from the movie or the books, but it’s a good story.  Teens that have only read the original book or seen the movie will probably enjoy this a lot.

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