Hello! Two weeks ago, I took a vacation to New York, and while I was there, I got to see the Broadway musical, Wicked! Anyway, I am super excited to review Wicked because I just had a lot of fun reading, and then watching, the book!! I highly recommend the book!
This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn’t nearly as Wicked as we imagined.
This book was pretty great! The writing style flowed with ease and detail. I really loved how every major event of the book reflected what happened in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz so that everything was connected and intertwined. The characters were portrayed perfectly so you really understood what each type of character was truly like.
But… the book was very political. I have a hard time following politics because I get confused and I just can’t keep my attention focused on what is going on, so getting through this book was a bit tricky. It was also hard because the author inferred a lot. I am not good at picking up on that kind of stuff so a good portion of the book was lost on me. Each section of the book started anew years after the last section ended, leaving you to pick up a few pieces here and there of what happened; you never were told straight up what was going on. This also made the book hard because you started to understand what was going on and the story was building and then a new section and because of giant time gaps, you are wandering in the dark for quite a few pages.
For me, the play helped me see the story clearly. The play was condensed and simplified so that it wasn’t a long dreary play. I have to say, I much preferred the play (I am kinda guilty about that :/). In the play, you could see facial expressions, major events played out and there was not much politics. And the play was very funny!
That said, I still think the book was amazing, and I probably would read the next book in the series! Rating: BORROW IT. Try the book out here!
This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn’t nearly as Wicked as we imagined.
This book was pretty great! The writing style flowed with ease and detail. I really loved how every major event of the book reflected what happened in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz so that everything was connected and intertwined. The characters were portrayed perfectly so you really understood what each type of character was truly like.
But… the book was very political. I have a hard time following politics because I get confused and I just can’t keep my attention focused on what is going on, so getting through this book was a bit tricky. It was also hard because the author inferred a lot. I am not good at picking up on that kind of stuff so a good portion of the book was lost on me. Each section of the book started anew years after the last section ended, leaving you to pick up a few pieces here and there of what happened; you never were told straight up what was going on. This also made the book hard because you started to understand what was going on and the story was building and then a new section and because of giant time gaps, you are wandering in the dark for quite a few pages.
For me, the play helped me see the story clearly. The play was condensed and simplified so that it wasn’t a long dreary play. I have to say, I much preferred the play (I am kinda guilty about that :/). In the play, you could see facial expressions, major events played out and there was not much politics. And the play was very funny!
That said, I still think the book was amazing, and I probably would read the next book in the series! Rating: BORROW IT. Try the book out here!