Wicked Years Son of a Witch: Volume Two in the Wicked Years, Book 2, (Paperback)

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 pacey1927

I think Son of A Witch was every bit as good as Wicked. Son of A Witch is the story of Liir, a young man who was raised by the Wicked Witch, but may or may not be her son. Liir's near dead body is found by travelers and brought to the mauntery for the maunts to try to heal. It just happens to be ...