Paige went there.Īs for our heroine Amy Gumm, how can we not adore her? She's feisty, brave, insecure, grounded, sarcastic (ALWAYS sarcastic, I have never loved dialogue in a novel more) and most importantly, real! She isn't your typical, crazy talented, beautiful selfless character, she has a real story and a personality you can really relate to.

Her insanity just pours out of the pages along with her unnatural lip glossed smile and hypnotic red heels. She is the queen of evil characters in YA. A completely terrifying, sweet-talking, party-obsessed, mean, creepy monster. This book was insanely addictive, it blew me away on so many different levels. Lanadel claims she’s leaving because of the Order’s secrets, but really she’s leaving because Melindra is being sent to spy on Dorothy’s palace, where her death is almost certain, and Lanadel doesn’t have the courage to tell Melindra how she really feels.I'll admit, at first I didn't understand all the hype over this book I mean, a retelling of the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is evil? It kind of just sounded bizarre. This makes all her whining needless because she’s not even going to work with the people she’s been bitching about the whole book. The whole novella becomes moot at the end when Lanadel states that she’s grateful for the training she’s received, but she’s no longer going to work for the Order. (Lanadel may be gay, but I can’t be 100% sure because she never allows herself to explore her feelings.) Also, Lanadel refuses to see that she responds to Nox so negatively because he receives affection from the girl she has a thing for. Lanadel refuses to admit that her family is dead because, once peaceful, Ozians are turning on one another without being poisoned by Dorothy’s magic.

If this sounds like a waste of a novella, it is.Įven if Lanadel is an important character, we don’t learn much about her: She joins the Order to avenge her family – Dorothy’s army murdered her parents and her two brothers – but she’s lying to herself as much as the Order is lying to her. No new information is given about the Order either since everything “has to be” shrouded in mystery and secrecy to ensure nothing can be revealed if Dorothy happens to capture and torture an Order member. Nox, Mombi, Gert, and Glamora are present, but no new information is given about them to say their stories are fleshed out. Namely, I couldn’t figure out if there was a point to me reading Lanadel’s POV – I don’t remember her from the other books. Coming into the story fresh, it was hard for me to decipher who was important and who was not. This novella might have been more interesting if it hadn’t been so long since I read a Dorothy Must Die novella or novel. Order of the Wicked (Dorothy Must Die #0.7)

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