A review by lindakat
There's No Place Like Oz by Leann Belle

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

 

I’ll start this by saying that these books can absolutely stand on their own without the luscious reverse harem styled smut, but the smut is gorgeous too. 

There was a real cleverness in this story in how the author incorporated elements from the original book and the movie adaptation like with Dorothy’s shoes starting silver and turning red as they absorbed the blood of her enemies and how the wizard’s task was to collect the soul items of the witches.’ I found both of those things, both clever and sweet little homages to L. Frank Baum. In saying this I did like the Alice one better but that had a lot to do with the fact Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland holds a complexity that Dorothy’s adventure doesn’t. What she done with that quick paced story that holds no adversity, was brilliant, but this one also was a little repetitive in a way the Alice one wasn’t. This got a bit kill a witch, get their artifact, kill a witch, get their artifact, and oh wait there’s another witch, but honestly these are minor gripes, these stories are by far the best smutty stories I have ever read as someone who doesn’t read a lot of (or really much at all) smut because it’s often tripe.