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A review by elisse9
Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire
4.0
For all of my Wizard of Oz fans out there, Out of Oz is the fourth and final volume in the Wicked series created and written by Gregory Maguire. Since I am starting this blog long after I began my adventure with Maguire, I feel I can only review on this most recent work of his that is freshest in my mind.
Maguire is a genius. It is simple as that. He writes in a weaving, complex, colorful and admirable way that leaves his readers speculating at the end of each passage. He has transformed the happy and mesmerizing Oz we imagined as children and turned it into a wildly tantalizing and chaotic land with a story far beyond what I had ever thought possible.
In Wicked, Son of a Witch and Lion Among Men (the predecessors to Out of Oz), Maguire always left me wanting more and left many loose ends that nagged at me, yearning to know how it would all end. Out of Oz is near perfection in the way that he sums up the story and lives of Elphaba (The Wicked Witch of the West), Glinda, Dorothy, Brrr (The Cowardly Lion) and Elphaba's ancestors known as Liir (her son) and Rain (Liir's daughter, Elphaba's granddaughter).
He fell short of perfection with the very ending in regards to a few questions that were left unanswered. Did Elphaba really die by the hands of Dorothy? What would become of Rain? What would become of the rest of Oz and is this truly the end of Oz in Maguire's eyes.....or will he create a new series that he does not consider 'wicked'?
Although these unanswered questions linger in my restless mind, I can not help but applaud my dear Gregory Maguire on his beautiful work of art he created in The Wicked Series. Out of Oz had me on the edge of my seat for almost the entire book and as a devoted fan, I felt satisfied with the ending to it all. I was sad when I closed Out of Oz, because no one ever wants a great thing to end.
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Maguire is a genius. It is simple as that. He writes in a weaving, complex, colorful and admirable way that leaves his readers speculating at the end of each passage. He has transformed the happy and mesmerizing Oz we imagined as children and turned it into a wildly tantalizing and chaotic land with a story far beyond what I had ever thought possible.
In Wicked, Son of a Witch and Lion Among Men (the predecessors to Out of Oz), Maguire always left me wanting more and left many loose ends that nagged at me, yearning to know how it would all end. Out of Oz is near perfection in the way that he sums up the story and lives of Elphaba (The Wicked Witch of the West), Glinda, Dorothy, Brrr (The Cowardly Lion) and Elphaba's ancestors known as Liir (her son) and Rain (Liir's daughter, Elphaba's granddaughter).
He fell short of perfection with the very ending in regards to a few questions that were left unanswered. Did Elphaba really die by the hands of Dorothy? What would become of Rain? What would become of the rest of Oz and is this truly the end of Oz in Maguire's eyes.....or will he create a new series that he does not consider 'wicked'?
Although these unanswered questions linger in my restless mind, I can not help but applaud my dear Gregory Maguire on his beautiful work of art he created in The Wicked Series. Out of Oz had me on the edge of my seat for almost the entire book and as a devoted fan, I felt satisfied with the ending to it all. I was sad when I closed Out of Oz, because no one ever wants a great thing to end.
dogearrinit.blogspot.com