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Loading... Son of a Witch (Wicked Years 2) (edition 2008)by Gregory Maguire
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   Best LGBT Fiction (27) Carole's List (178) » 8 more Books Read in 2019 (2,127) One Book, Many Authors (289) All Things Oz (3) Books Read in 2008 (181) Unread books (778) No current Talk conversations about this book.  MamaBearLendingDen | Nov 26, 2023 |    ) DominiqueMarie | Oct 22, 2023 | Review: If you can hang on until the middle of the book, this becomes an okay story. I found much of it tedious and the main character inept. The ending made me think of the retort, 'another male behaving badly.' (  ) DrLed | Jun 8, 2021 |  ) kshydog | Dec 13, 2020 | This still did not tie up any loose ends. The first book left a very frayed rope. I was already warned from a friend when I started Son of a Witch that I would still be left with quite a few questions and very few answers which, of course, means that I have to move on to book 3. The book was an easy read and I read it quickly. New characters are introduced and there are a few familiar faces. I didn't feel the intensity of Wicked in this sequel but I was happy to be going back to Oz. (I never thought I'd say that.) (  ) Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 |
 ''Son of a Witch" is vintage Maguire, thoroughly entertaining even at its darkest. Oz is as complex and satisfying a fantastic world as ever, wonderfully described, from the steam rising out of the marshes to the sloe-eyed young homeless on the Emerald City streets.  Enchanted elephants and dragon death squads — Maguire's sequel to his 1995 best-seller, Wicked, is as fantastical as a novel set in Oz should be.  As a result the story - which is meant to contain great love and great tragedy as well as great invention - tends to slip awkwardly between registers. Maguire may have successfully done away with Dorothy, but he hasn't quite got control of his broomstick yet.  Like the character Liir at its center ("a solitary figure untroubled by ambition, unfettered by talent, uncertain of a damn thing"), the novel suffers from entropy. It wanders around, off-kilter and aimless: "A year passed, another. Nothing was the same, year after year, but little was different, either." Belongs to SeriesThe Wicked Years (2) AwardsDistinctions
The sequel to Wicked returns to the land of Oz to tell the story of Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape, but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up? No library descriptions found. |
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Adult Content Advisory that Wicked sent up the flagpole continues to wave and flap. This book explores some mature themes in political and private life with sometimes disturbing imagery, coarse language, and a relentless realism that casts an ominous shadow across the innocent, optimistic world of Oz. Also, there’s the sex, sex, more sex, some of it of the troubling boy-on-boy persuasion.