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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I love the Glass Cat so much. Like, you guys. It's such an unrepentant little bastard. Lots of fun and interesting things happen in this book, but really it's the Glass Cat that made me love this installment so much.
This was a typical Oz novel. The premise of the novel is that all the charactrs are planning birthday surprises for Ozma, and the novel recounts their adventures while obtaining the best surprises. It suffers from the same malady of several other Oz novels, in that the plot is not a cohesive whole so much as a collected sequence of events, some of which are not directly related to the others. Still, it was entertaining, a fun read.
I didnt like this book at all . It keeps going on and on
Not the worst of the Oz books, because the individual scenes are entertaining, but certainly one of the weakest. Even the title is meaningless. There is hardly a plot and what there is has been done before and contains several continuity errors. It is Ozma's birthday (again). Dorothy tries to come up with a decent present (as usual she is inseparable from the Wizard). Meanwhile Trot, Cap'n Bill and the Glass Cat get into a bit of peril. Meanwhile meanwhile the ex-Nome King is up to no good (again) but his lacklustre plan peters out so easily everyone seems to forget about it. At the end we get the usual roll-call of favourite characters invited to the party but Baum forgets about the Woozy so now I am imagining the poor beast sitting all alone in the stables wondering where everyone is. There is now only one book left in the original Baum canon. I hope he puts more effort into it than this one.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
One of my favorites in this series.
I enjoyed the plan of the Nome King in turning people into animals and vice versa, what's even more hilarious is the fact the spell backfires and the king gets turned into an animal he's afraid of.
I also enjoy the fact that the Cowardly Lion is a main character again, something that hasn't been seen since book 1.
I enjoyed the plan of the Nome King in turning people into animals and vice versa, what's even more hilarious is the fact the spell backfires and the king gets turned into an animal he's afraid of.
I also enjoy the fact that the Cowardly Lion is a main character again, something that hasn't been seen since book 1.
Definitely suffered a bit being read directly after The Emerald City of Oz, in my estimation one of the series' strongest, as this late installation—one of the few I'd never read before—felt particularly weak. Bonus points for the a generous helping of the prickly Glass Cat (as an adult I'm clearly drawn to the more cantankerous of Baum's creations), but substantial points detracted due to Kiki Aru, one of the most unlikable characters in the Oz universe—from early on I was rooting for the Gnome King to off that little sh*t once & for all.