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Dorothy Must Die
by Danielle Paige
Could I have known that it wouldn't be a great read? Yes. I actually picked it up in the hopes of a nice in-between 3 star read. A lot like The Selection and Queen of Hearts were for me. You pick it up knowing it won't be amazing, but you pick it up to be entertained.
This 2 star (close to 1 star) is a not entertained star. Why was it so bad you ask?:
Too many pages for too little plot
This book has 452 pages, I listened to the audiobook which was with speed 2x still 7+ hours. This is really accessive in my mind for what actually happens in the book. This all could be told in half the pages! It isn't as if the extra pages were used for useful things, most of the pages were used to portray how flat the characters actually are and unnecessary events that aren't important for the plot in the end.
Flat characters
We all know the original story of Dorothy in Oz, the characters are pretty flat. The witch is wicked, Dorothy is good. In this book, being a retelling, I was expecting a comment on the black and white view of the first book. Because isn't there also a grey aspect? In the beginning it seems to be setting up for that, Amy arrives in Oz and learns how all these horrible things are due to Dorothy. Later in the story, she joins a group that wants to take Dorothy down, they call themselves wicked and Dorothy is good. In this case, wicked would be good and good is bad (this is confusing I know). That's the moment in the story where I want that grey to come in because even though they switched the names around there is still a distinct evil and good. The rest of the book is used to tell how incredibly wrong, bad and "wicked" Dorothy and her friends are now. Sometimes it is commented that Amy sees a flicker of the old Dorothy, but that's immediately overruled by her doing something incredibly bad. It is never really explained why they are like this now.
I did discover that this series has, not one, not 3, no no, 9 (!!!!!!!) prequel novellas. After 452 pages of nonsense it was decided that they hadn't had enough room for a little explanation, so yeah instead of a prequel book, lets release 9 prequel novellas that are a thousand pages combined... Why??
There is one thing that I liked and that I could relate to. It was this quote by Dorothy:
"DON'T HURT MY DOG YOU BITCH"
And she is damn right in that, don't hurt her dog, don't hurt my dog, you know what, don't hurt any dog!
Would I recommend this book? No. It was a bad retelling and I really don't think that I will be continuing this series or reading the prequel novellas. But as always, if it sparked your interest do try it out, because maybe it has something in it for you!
This 2 star (close to 1 star) is a not entertained star. Why was it so bad you ask?:
Too many pages for too little plot
This book has 452 pages, I listened to the audiobook which was with speed 2x still 7+ hours. This is really accessive in my mind for what actually happens in the book. This all could be told in half the pages! It isn't as if the extra pages were used for useful things, most of the pages were used to portray how flat the characters actually are and unnecessary events that aren't important for the plot in the end.
Flat characters
We all know the original story of Dorothy in Oz, the characters are pretty flat. The witch is wicked, Dorothy is good. In this book, being a retelling, I was expecting a comment on the black and white view of the first book. Because isn't there also a grey aspect? In the beginning it seems to be setting up for that, Amy arrives in Oz and learns how all these horrible things are due to Dorothy. Later in the story, she joins a group that wants to take Dorothy down, they call themselves wicked and Dorothy is good. In this case, wicked would be good and good is bad (this is confusing I know). That's the moment in the story where I want that grey to come in because even though they switched the names around there is still a distinct evil and good. The rest of the book is used to tell how incredibly wrong, bad and "wicked" Dorothy and her friends are now. Sometimes it is commented that Amy sees a flicker of the old Dorothy, but that's immediately overruled by her doing something incredibly bad. It is never really explained why they are like this now.
I did discover that this series has, not one, not 3, no no, 9 (!!!!!!!) prequel novellas. After 452 pages of nonsense it was decided that they hadn't had enough room for a little explanation, so yeah instead of a prequel book, lets release 9 prequel novellas that are a thousand pages combined... Why??
There is one thing that I liked and that I could relate to. It was this quote by Dorothy:
"DON'T HURT MY DOG YOU BITCH"
And she is damn right in that, don't hurt her dog, don't hurt my dog, you know what, don't hurt any dog!
Would I recommend this book? No. It was a bad retelling and I really don't think that I will be continuing this series or reading the prequel novellas. But as always, if it sparked your interest do try it out, because maybe it has something in it for you!