Dorothy Must Die
Series: Dorothy must die #1
Genre: Retelling, Fantasy
Original publication date: April 2014
Book Description (from Good Reads): I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.
But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?
Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still a yellow brick road—but even that's crumbling.
What happened? Dorothy.
They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.
My name is Amy Gumm—and I'm the other girl from Kansas.
I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.
I've been trained to fight.
And I have a mission.
Thoughts:
This starts very averagely, a very unlucky girl. Bullied, difficult home, an absent father and a very unmotherly mother. But then her life gets turned into a fairy tale, she gets swept up a tornado and then boom thrown into a very different Oz than she had imagined.
She has to decide what to do about her appointed mission, a mission she might have accepted without realizing what it really entailed.
Amy is a very pragmatic girl, lost and inquisitive who manages to make several mistakes in her short stay due to ignorance, but she learns that ignorance is no excuse and she or others must pay for that.
As she starts her adventure she finds people who want her to do the unreachable task of killing the ruler that is terrorizing the land of Oz.
It contains an unnecessary relationship drama, of falling for the war harden boy who doesn't show his feelings and people thinks he actually doesn't have any. It does not dominate the story so that's an upside really.
The stakes do not feel high really for some reason, and there is a nice plot revelation right in the end that makes me wonder what really is going on, like where the story is going and what was the plan all along.
Some parts are predictable but some others are surprising and interesting, it was a very average story, nothing mind-blowing and it took me a while to finish but I still intend to continue with the series if I find it available in Scribd as well.
I used this book to cover the challenges of #AYearAThon retellings. Due to my busy life, as I was working ahead to prepare for my week-long vacation I actually forgot to finish this post before leaving so, I'm just posting it now.
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