![]() ![]() ![]() Even if they learn and change their sins set events into relentless motion. This series has the same sense of inevitability: these characters with these flaws make only one ending possible. Their talent was not inventing novel stories but retelling familiar ones in their unique voices. I am reminded of Euripides and authors down to Eugene O'Neil and on. Instead of being a collection of bones Maguire carries as the burden, they are the skeleton the story is able to flesh out and again animate. We do not know them from The Wizard of Oz but from Wicked. The locations, history, culture, milieu and relationships in the story are no longer Baum's but Maguire owns them. Not being tied by our familiarity to Baum's book or the 1939 movie musical, the plot is fully Maguire's and hung together as a fabric instead of just threads having to pass through specific events. The characters remain idiosyncratic but their growth and motivations were more satisfying to me. ![]() Second in Maguire's histories of the Thropps, the family of the Wicked Witch of the West, I found this in almost every way superior to the first, Wicked. ![]()
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