This book was an interesting take on the original tale. If you loved the movie, you’ll probably be interested to read about Dorothy becoming the villain, and the protagonist a young girl from Kansas who ends up walking the yellow brick road to kill the villain, who has made herself a Princess and turned against the people she once saved.
“I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero.” Amy Gumm becomes the other girl from Kansas, when like Dorothy once did, she ends up becoming swept up into a tornado and taken along with it, but not only that, she ends up where Dorothy once did. In this place, Good Witches can’t be trusted and Wicked Witches are actually trying to save the people, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. And the yellow brick road is crumbling.
I really enjoyed seeing Amy going through all of the motions on this yellow brick road, seeing monkeys being held up as prisoners and wanting to save them, and seeing her recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked, where she comes to work for the good guys. The Wicked Witches. She isn’t sure who to trust, but they train her and give her a purpose.
To kill Dorothy.
And of course there’s a litttle romance, and a little betrayal in there as well.
April Grace 