Wicked

Thank you WilliamMorrow Books for this gifted series.

Could you pick a better season to pick up this series!?! Plus there is a new look for Gregory Maguire’s 𝗪𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 novels and it’s just in time for this Fall’s big feature film based on the book 𝗪𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 (film comes out November).

🧙𝗪𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.

But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas.

Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.

💬𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝘇?

AOTD: When I was little it was the Tin Man.