I’m as tired as Dorothy was walking for weeks on the Yellow Brick Road after reading this book, and nowhere near as excited. I was incredibly impressed at what I learned about the Yellow Brick Road itself – the politics surrounding its existence, the lands it travels through and those it does not, and the famous city at its end – but unlike Dorothy, all the people I met along the way were boring, difficult to understand, without motivation, and emotionless. Wicked is a beautiful world, but there’s nobody home.
Summary:
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum’s classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?
