Dorothy Must Die

I have recently finished Dorothy Must Die, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Okay- I admit it didn't grab me at times when it felt like it was supposed to. But overall a fantastic book with a cool storyline. I may put a few things in the wrong order but hey- I am trying.

*SPOILERS!*

Amy Gumm lives in Kansas and doesn't have any friends, she lives in a caravan with her mother and her life is very boring and dull. One day when coming home from school, a tornado hits the town and she ends up in Oz. She is still in the caravan with her mum's pet rat, Star, who she never really liked, but figures the rodent will be a comfort.
She is greeted by a mysterious guy named Pete who helps her from the caravan before it crashes into a deep cavern below. Pete disappears before Amy can ask him anything. That's when she starts following the yellow brick road.
She comes across a tiny town that is smashed and wrecked and looks like something terrible happened there. Then, she meets the sour, tough but sometimes helpful Indigo. A goth munchkin. Never in my dreams have I thought of a goth munchkin.
Amy asks Indigo about where she is and what happened to the town and all that stuff. By now, Amy is guessing she is in Oz.
Indigo doesn't really answer her. The munchkin disappears too. Amy is on her own. A while later, she comes across a crowd of munchkins and townspeople gathered infront ofa see-saw thingy. A beautiful, smiling woman is in the centre of all this. There is just one thing that is weird- everyone is smiling. Like, really smiling. Literally ear to ear, like this-

Indigo suddenly grabs her and pulls her away. She says the smiling woman is Glinda, the 'Good Witch' and the see saw thingy is extracting magic from the ground. They walk along when they see a monkey, hanging upside down in a tree. He is being punished for using sass (really, for being sassy) and they help him down.

That is all I am going to tell you!

This book has a really good twist on this timeless classic. It is more based on the movie than the book, but overall, it is still just as great.

It occasionally swears near the beginning of the book, so be wary of that, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't say it anywhere else. And it is gory at times, so in case you don't like feeling a bit sick while reading, I would skip those parts. But everything else is fine.

This book is humorous too, which I like. There is a prequel to this book, but it is only available on ebook, so that sucks. Anyway.....

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