Son of a Witch

from joeydag

I've read quite a few of Maguire's books. He has a suggestive style that really works well with retelling fairy tales. I worked through this book, and I was entertained but I was not swept up in it. I may try the the third in the series to see how that goes.

from yarkan

I thought Wicked was an awesome book, an astounding epic book with a different look at Oz. I had a hard time getting through this sequel. Was it the slowness? Or maybe I felt no sympathy for the protagonist. He seemed clueless. Or maybe that was just me. He is bicurious, which seemed to come out ...

from theokester

A year or so ago I read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and found it pretty enjoyable and thought provoking. Enough so that I picked up the follow-up book, Son of a Witch. It took a while to finally getting around to reading the second book...and by now I've seen the m...

from ssplam

This one I entered knowing something about the world of Oz as seen by Maguire. I'd read wicked and became acquainted with Liir through that. I really wanted to like this book too, but found it quite long and not quite as interesting. Still it provides a further look at a world I missed after the ...

from klarsenmd

While this one wasn't quite as good as WIcked, it was still enchanting. despite the slow start, the story really picked up towards the end with lots of politics, interesting twists and great characters. Liir is questionably the son of the wicked witch of the west. He is a tortured soul and on a m...