Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years (Wicked Years, 4)

“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.”
Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of “the magical land of Oz.” Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest—placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguire’s magnificent Oz finale—tying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked, the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.

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Published Oct 2, 2012

592 pages

Average rating: 8.36

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margardenlady
Dec 27, 2023
8/10 stars
And the saga is complete. But this novel ends with more of a cliffhangers than I would prefer. What will become of Rain?? Did Dorothy make it home? Who is Ozma, really? So many questions. Still a fun romp through Oz with its wars and segregationist tendencies.

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