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Dorothy Must Die
by Danielle Paige
When I was a much younger reader, I read ALL the Oz books. And it was a very fantastical and nonsensical world. And it wasn't a world that was all about Dorothy either.
I just couldn't get into the vilification of Dorothy. As a girl who hated her life on the farm, and sucked up all the magic in Oz so she could dress like a blue gingham-ed hooker, and along with her equally perverted original team, torture and terrorize the locals.
Even though the characters fall into the "YA" age range. This book had a lot of grotesque and bloody scenes, and didn't spare the language, to a degree that I don't usually see in YA books. Beyond some introspective questioning about how someone who seemed good can turn bad, or how you can "kill" another human, even if it's for a worthy cause and retain your own "goodness." And what truly is wicked, and what isn't. Beyond those deeper themes, I didn't care for this book or the story, or the characters in it - it was just too grotesque a re-imagining of the fairy tales I grew up with for me to find enjoyable.
I just couldn't get into the vilification of Dorothy. As a girl who hated her life on the farm, and sucked up all the magic in Oz so she could dress like a blue gingham-ed hooker, and along with her equally perverted original team, torture and terrorize the locals.
Even though the characters fall into the "YA" age range. This book had a lot of grotesque and bloody scenes, and didn't spare the language, to a degree that I don't usually see in YA books. Beyond some introspective questioning about how someone who seemed good can turn bad, or how you can "kill" another human, even if it's for a worthy cause and retain your own "goodness." And what truly is wicked, and what isn't. Beyond those deeper themes, I didn't care for this book or the story, or the characters in it - it was just too grotesque a re-imagining of the fairy tales I grew up with for me to find enjoyable.