Wicked Years A Lion Among Men, Book 3, (Paperback)

from jshrop

Much to my dissapointment, I had mixed feelings about the third installment in Gregory Maguire's "Wicked Years" saga. A Lion Among Men, as the title hits you over the head with, mostly surrounds the "Cowardly" Lion introduced in Wicked as the cub subjected to experimentation at Shiz University, a...

from andsoitgoes

This story had great promise in the beginning. It kept me turning the pages to ultimately get to the climax at the end. Unfortunately, it left me with no resolutions except for Yackle. I wish the author had thrown a couple of bones in regards to the stories on Liir and Candle but he was definitel...

from lithicbee

My affection for this series dims with each volume. In this third book in The Wicked Years, we learn about the lives of the Cowardly Lion and Yackle, and the fate of Nor. Yes, some questions are answered, but I do not see a satisfying ending to this series in sight. If you continue to love this t...

from Finxy

Review from Badelynge I'm a big admirer of Gregory Maguire's first Wicked book. It rightly deserves all the literary and popular acclaim it has so far garnered. I was fascinated by the life story and character of Elphaba Thropp aka The Wicked Witch of the West. The second book, Son of a Witch, wa...

from echaika

The final book of Gregory Maguire's trilogy loses none of the magic and bite of Wicked and flows more easily than Son of a Witch, perhaps because it doesn't get lost in the dungeons of Emerald City as that one did. Maguire's prose is itself often magical. We see starry nights as amazing as Van Go...