"When a Witch dies—not as a crone, withered and incapable, but as a woman in her prime, at the height of her passion and prowess—too much is left unsaid. What might have happened had Elphaba lived? Of her campaigns in defense of the Animals, of her appetite for justice, of her talent for magic itself, what good might have come? If every death is a tragedy, the death of a woman in her prime keenly bereaves the whole world.
Ten years after the publication of Wicked, bestselling novelist Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch." The story's very gripping right from the get-go with dead bodies and ripped off faces hurtling you into this yarn at breakneck speed. I only wish I'd read Wicked when it came out ten years ago. Ah well, I started the Hood trilogy with Scarlett (book 2) and enjoyed them all thoroughly anyway. I'm lovin' this novel!
