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lduubs's review
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
spookyautumnleaves's review
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
shellydav's review
5.0
LOVED this! This is the kind of book that I call a heartbreaker--it breaks my heart to finish it and have to walk away from the characters and the story.
riestenberger's review against another edition
4.0
Review is late, blah blah.
I grabbed this audiobook because a) I love the musical and b) one of my close friends loves these books.
Not at all what I was expecting. I had a really hard time getting into it because it was so vastly different from the musical. However, since this book ended where the musical ended, I decided to continue and see what became of the characters since I had no expectations.
I grabbed this audiobook because a) I love the musical and b) one of my close friends loves these books.
Not at all what I was expecting. I had a really hard time getting into it because it was so vastly different from the musical. However, since this book ended where the musical ended, I decided to continue and see what became of the characters since I had no expectations.
eadrianschmitz's review
The writing is terrible, the world I'm feels unfinished. A waste of time.
anxiouscoffee's review against another edition
5.0
A Wicked-ly good origin story for one of the most well known witches
cassjsmith's review
challenging
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Before anything else can be said about this book, it must be said that the Broadway show is *inspired* by this book, not based. Most of the plot is actually not the same at all, it seems that because audiences love love, the play took the most marketable parts of the book (relationships) and made it a show. All of that being said, this book is so so so good.
The book is so wonderfully complex as it navigates through a maze of moral quandaries. It actually hardly focuses on her relationships and friendships at all, in fact, she seems rather incapable of normal relationships. Instead we get to see the topic of the nature of evil develop throughout the book as it is almost impossible to see Elphaba as evil, even though she might be incapable of being truly good as well.
The writing is gorgeous. I often found myself wanting to underline sentences that were hardly important because the writing was so pretty.
I marked the characters as not lovable because they are not. They are real and we kind of only get to see their actions rather than their feelings. This wasn’t a drawback through as it allowed the reader to examine the themes rather than be blinded by affection for the characters.
All in all I loved this. It didn’t make me like the show any less, but it made me realize that the book it was based on if far deeper than I could comprehend after only 1 read.
Yay! Will read again! Will not recommend to students since it’s pretty adult!
The book is so wonderfully complex as it navigates through a maze of moral quandaries. It actually hardly focuses on her relationships and friendships at all, in fact, she seems rather incapable of normal relationships. Instead we get to see the topic of the nature of evil develop throughout the book as it is almost impossible to see Elphaba as evil, even though she might be incapable of being truly good as well.
The writing is gorgeous. I often found myself wanting to underline sentences that were hardly important because the writing was so pretty.
I marked the characters as not lovable because they are not. They are real and we kind of only get to see their actions rather than their feelings. This wasn’t a drawback through as it allowed the reader to examine the themes rather than be blinded by affection for the characters.
All in all I loved this. It didn’t make me like the show any less, but it made me realize that the book it was based on if far deeper than I could comprehend after only 1 read.
Yay! Will read again! Will not recommend to students since it’s pretty adult!
noesbookishthings's review
4.0
This started out really slow, I think that might be this guy's style. But it ended up being a really good book. Some difficult language, I had to look some words up while I was reading (did anyone else know that fecund means offspring?). It was a lot more political than I had expected, definitely an interesting take on Wizard of Oz.
josephinereallylovestoread's review
i’m sorry wicked 😭 but it did feel like a sign when my copy of Wicked died because I left my window open during a tornado — we’re Dorothy-coded
jothaniel's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
First time rereading in probably like 15 years. Held up better than I thought it would. A little self important, but also earned?