Sometimes, it’s quite wicked.Īnother tornado in Kansas, another girl misplaced in Oz and we revisit the place only to wonder what in the world has happened. We loved Glinda’s sparkle and the shine of the yellow brick road, but sometimes too much ‘good’ just isn’t all that good. But it was an exciting start.We all cheered for Dorothy to find the Wizard and make her way back home to Kansas. Overall, since this is the first in the series, there’s going to be a lot of world building and development and not the best resolution. Amy has a crush on the hot fighter guy, but the romance is very light and understandable. or well tries to, but that’s destiny for you. When she finds herself in Oz, she does the thing where every reader yells at the main character for not doing: she walks away. And she has a matter of running away, which is understandable. She’s not entirely lovely nor entirely mean.

Or-worse-that I was here to take her place.Īmy is such a realistic character, she does heroic actions but realises her stupidity in some things. Another girl from Kansas meant that it was just a regular occurrence and that she wasn’t special at all. Dorothy thought her landing here was fate-that it made her special. It was like we were wearing the same dress to the prom. And it’s understandable why she hates Amy so much.ĭorothy’s face was burning with aggrieved rage. Dorothy may be vain, but power gets to people’s head, and she turns evil. She commands her minions, the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, Glinda. It takes brains and manipulation and power to get as far as she did in the land of Oz. I love the portrayal of Dorothy, she becomes so twisted. And none of them has a choice, and they can’t stand up against the power of those with magic. So many have been sacrificed at the whim of Dorothy and her evil gang. The characters are so angry, with good reasons. It is such a dark, twisted version of Oz. The setting for the novel is so beautiful, it deserves to be visualised. And Amy must team up with Revolutionary Order Of The Wicked, and trained with one mission in mind, Dorothy must die… It’s more post-apocalyptic than a fairytale beginning. And this isn’t the Oz she had grown up learning about. Her life is terrible until a tornado comes, blowing her trailer straight out of her world and into Oz.

She lives in Kansas, with her drug addict mum, and no future and only a rat name Star as her companion. “Dorothy Must Die” is a dark twist on the Oz classic where Dorothy has become a power-hungry fascist leader with the Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Man as her evil henchmen. However, for this review, I’ve put all that aside, and this review is based on Paige’s work. At first, I wasn’t sure about reading this book due to the shady things.