Wicked: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture (Wicked Years Book 1)
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?
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I re-read the book to refresh myself for part 2 of the movie release in the fall. Whoa! The book is a lot darker than the movie for sure and there were a lot of other differences to me too. I would recommend reading the physical book vs audio book though because I had to rewind quite a few times during the denser parts of the story.
I enjoyed it, the storytelling, character dynamics, and descriptive world building was great. I found that the last part was rushed and chaotic. It didn’t feel wholly organic to the characters that had been built, more a panicked realization that this story needed to be integrated back with the original telling. I’m still happy to have read it and would recommend.
Probably should have been called the Freaky Witch of the West. Why was this written? Why was it so unnecessarily freaky? I was expecting Wicked the musical genius inspo (I had been warned that this book is nuts, I should have listened), but the musical got the story right and better. This felt like a Wicked fanfic but whoever wrote it didn’t know what happened in Act 2, which is unfortunate because ITS THE SOURCE MATERIAL. Insane.
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