Originally Reviewed October 19, 2004:
Description:
Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, has gotten a bum rap. Her mother is embarrassed and repulsed by her bright-green baby with shark's teeth and an aversion to water. At college, the coed experiences disapproval and rejection by her roommate, Glinda, a silly girl interested only in clothes, money, and popularity. Elphaba is a serious and inquisitive student. When she learns that the Wizard of Oz is politically corrupt and causing economic ruin, Elphaba finds a sense of purpose to her life - to stop him and to restore harmony and prosperity to the land.
My Thoughts:
First of all, I've never read Baum's books, so I was just comparing this book to the movie The Wizard of Oz. The book had a lot of political and religious concepts that I didn't fully grasp, but found interesting anyway. I expected this story to just be the Witch's perspective on the whole story...and it was, but Dorothy and the gang didn't even show up until page 332 out of a 406 page book. Overall, it was hard to get into, but it picked up, and was an interesting read.
Rating: C
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