pforpedrox23 's review for:

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

1.0

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Half-starts and red herrings and a lack of any motivation to care about any character. Sometimes you could empathize. Sometimes you could feel the character's frustration. But you know what that frustration was? Frustration with the story! Utterly unsatisfying. It attempts to leave you with the same air of speculation and mystery with which it began. What happens, then, is nothing short of stupefaction. I slogged through 500 pages of paranoia, hurt, and crabbiness for nothing? I'll choose to forget all about it.