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A review by saffigon
Dorothy Must Die: Stories by Danielle Paige
3.0
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
Cursing is heavy in this review.
This was the best of the bind ups for this series. But there were still major problems.
No Place Like Oz:
I think this story drags on. I think it would have been better if there was less to it. Although, it wasn't that bad. It was okay. Dorothy shows her bitchiness. I do hate it in books where the character is clueless, but the reader knows what's happening. It's really frustrating. The character embarrasses themselves in one way or another. Once she go to the palace, she was a brat. Ozma wouldn't teach her magic, so Dorothy threw a fit. It was just plain rude and annoying as hell. The battle between her and Ozma was like the best part of the story.
The Witch Must Burn:
This story was the best of the three. We get to see Jellia, who was a character we couldn't see much of because she died so early on. Jellia had a mysterious past. She was a part of the Order, but the reader didn't know how she got in it or her role in the Order. This story explains EVERYTHING. Basically, Jellia is invited to work with Glinda in her summer home. There, she meets Nox. They start to talk and he basically invites her to work with the Order. It was well written. It didn't drag on. It kept your interested. It's only flaw was that I think it was a LITTLE too short. It could have done for, like, 20 more pages.
The Wizard Returns:
I was impartial to this story. I think that it gave more of a mystery to the Wizard that wasn't there before. We knew he had a hand in everything, but we didn't know that the Nome King had an eye on him from the cane he carried around. That was a big change in his role. Another thing that was interesting was that Pete helped the Wizard remember who he was.
Cursing is heavy in this review.
This was the best of the bind ups for this series. But there were still major problems.
No Place Like Oz:
I think this story drags on. I think it would have been better if there was less to it. Although, it wasn't that bad. It was okay. Dorothy shows her bitchiness. I do hate it in books where the character is clueless, but the reader knows what's happening. It's really frustrating. The character embarrasses themselves in one way or another. Once she go to the palace, she was a brat. Ozma wouldn't teach her magic, so Dorothy threw a fit. It was just plain rude and annoying as hell. The battle between her and Ozma was like the best part of the story.
The Witch Must Burn:
This story was the best of the three. We get to see Jellia, who was a character we couldn't see much of because she died so early on. Jellia had a mysterious past. She was a part of the Order, but the reader didn't know how she got in it or her role in the Order. This story explains EVERYTHING. Basically, Jellia is invited to work with Glinda in her summer home. There, she meets Nox. They start to talk and he basically invites her to work with the Order. It was well written. It didn't drag on. It kept your interested. It's only flaw was that I think it was a LITTLE too short. It could have done for, like, 20 more pages.
The Wizard Returns:
I was impartial to this story. I think that it gave more of a mystery to the Wizard that wasn't there before. We knew he had a hand in everything, but we didn't know that the Nome King had an eye on him from the cane he carried around. That was a big change in his role. Another thing that was interesting was that Pete helped the Wizard remember who he was.