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A review by alexiasophii
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
5.0
Re-read in 2022: Still my favourite book :)
This is my favourite book of all time. Serious, it is.
I can relate to Elphaba in so many ways, her personality, her suffering, her struggle, her will, her life... I can relate a lot with her and that made me love the book even more. For me, this book is wonderful. It talks of a world that is weak, full of problems underneath the beautiful skin that are starting to crack. Social problems, economical problems, political problems... An entire world is about to engage in a series of events that will change it forever and we get to see it and almost live it through Maguire's words.
Elphaba's life (both in Oz and Emerald City and even in Kiamo Ko) is given to us with such words and it feels like we are there, living it with her and I find that a very good gift that Maguire has and I love the way he uses it. He doesn't want a book that is all Ozian with the perfectness and rainbows, he wants to show Oz as a mirror to our world. Oz's problems are the same problems we have. Social problems, economical, lack of resources, politics, religion... We can identify our world with Oz in an unbelievable way.
That is one of the things that makes me love this book so much more. Wicked is a marvelous book. Really marvelous.
This is my favourite book of all time. Serious, it is.
I can relate to Elphaba in so many ways, her personality, her suffering, her struggle, her will, her life... I can relate a lot with her and that made me love the book even more. For me, this book is wonderful. It talks of a world that is weak, full of problems underneath the beautiful skin that are starting to crack. Social problems, economical problems, political problems... An entire world is about to engage in a series of events that will change it forever and we get to see it and almost live it through Maguire's words.
Elphaba's life (both in Oz and Emerald City and even in Kiamo Ko) is given to us with such words and it feels like we are there, living it with her and I find that a very good gift that Maguire has and I love the way he uses it. He doesn't want a book that is all Ozian with the perfectness and rainbows, he wants to show Oz as a mirror to our world. Oz's problems are the same problems we have. Social problems, economical, lack of resources, politics, religion... We can identify our world with Oz in an unbelievable way.
That is one of the things that makes me love this book so much more. Wicked is a marvelous book. Really marvelous.