I thought that Dorothy Must Die had a fantastic start. But rather than the sweet and fussy creatures we know them as they're sinister murderers, the Tin Man in particular could've walked straight out of a very dark steampunk novel. Glinda the Good is in fact bad and Dorothy's henchmen are led by the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow.
She doesn't have any friends in high school and so when she gets swept away by a tornado and lands in the strange land of Oz, just like Dorothy did so many years earlier, she's able to manage pretty well on her own at first.īut of course a story of just Amy wandering about and discovering the Oz that isn't quite what she thought it was from the stories she grew up with, just like you and me, doesn't make for much of a novel and she's soon recruited by a group of people who tell her that Dorothy is now in charge of Oz and that this is definitely not a good thing. Having been forced to take care of herself from when she was just a little girl, she's very independent but also lonely. Amy lives in a trailer park in Kansas with a mother who doesn't seem to love her. We discover this new Oz through the eyes of teenager Amy Gunn. This time around, just like in the much more adult Wicked series by Gregory Maguire, the characters we think are the good guys are actually the wicked ones and vice versa. As I'm both a big fan of classic children's stories (The Wizard of Oz is one of my all-time favourites) and contemporary retelllings of fairytales, I was instantly intrigued by this novel and extremely excited to get my eager hands on a copy.
How brilliant does this cover look with that title? Without even reading the blurb, I'm sure everyone knows who Dorothy is and will be very interested in finding out why the sweet little pigtailed girl we've all grown up with should die. I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. My name is Amy Gumm-and I'm the other girl from Kansas. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. They say she found a way to come back to Oz. There's still the yellow brick road, though-but even that's crumbling.
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. But I never expected Oz to look like this. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.īut when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado-taking you with it-you have no choice but to go along, you know? My edition: Paperback, published on 3 July 2014 by HarperCollins, 452 pages.ĭescription: I didn't ask for any of this.
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