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Wicked

Gregory Maguire

3.4 AVERAGE

cherrychloe's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leandramims's review against another edition

4.0

slow-paced

Can be slow going at times, but overall a good story. I definitely would suggest the audiobook if you don't care for reading verbose text.

georgiehar's review against another edition

2.25

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

lampje's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Just finished this mammoth of a book and I'm exhausted and stoned but thrilled and satiated.

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callahroth's review against another edition

2.0

I, like most people, decided to read this book after watching the musical. I originally saw it on Broadway and loved it. Then I saw the movie and loved it.

This book is SO different and I know it was supposed to be a more brutal version of the musical but it didn't even have the same feel. The story was mostly sad and halfway through I had no idea where it was going. I feel like the author could have done way more because I love the concept of retelling the wizard of Oz in Elfaba's POV, but he didn't even explain a lot of things. I feel like I don't understand where their sorcery powers came from and none of the characters had closure by the end of the book. There was so much potential to dive into the whole world of it and I didn't get to feel much of that. It was focused on Elfaba's life but it also felt very choppy we were onto the next section of her life before concluding anything. Overall I felt a bit lost in the story.