"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Title: Dorothy Must Die
Author: Danielle Paige
Series: Dorothy Must Die, #1
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release: April 1st 2014
Pages: 432 (hardcover)
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A dark tale of Wizard of Oz? Sign me up! It's definitely an interesting idea to have Dorothy become a evil manipulative overlord who is taking Oz to disparity. I'm very curious to see how Danielle Paige will execute that, though based on the couple of reviews I have seen, she did a fantastic job at it, which just makes me crave for this book even more. Hopefully, Paige also has a great imagination as well as Oz is anything but a dull place.
I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.
But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?
Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still the yellow brick road, though—but even that's crumbling.
What happened?
Dorothy. They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.
My name is Amy Gumm—and I'm the other girl from Kansas.
I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.
I've been trained to fight.
And I have a mission:
Remove the Tin Woodman's heart.
Steal the Scarecrow's brain.
Take the Lion's courage.
Then and only then—Dorothy must die!
A dark tale of Wizard of Oz? Sign me up! It's definitely an interesting idea to have Dorothy become a evil manipulative overlord who is taking Oz to disparity. I'm very curious to see how Danielle Paige will execute that, though based on the couple of reviews I have seen, she did a fantastic job at it, which just makes me crave for this book even more. Hopefully, Paige also has a great imagination as well as Oz is anything but a dull place.
What about you? Anything on your top shopping list? :P
Yeeeees. YES I WANTS IT. I WANTS IT BADLY. This is one of my highly anticipated of the year (so I'm a little bit worried it won't live up to the hype, though). And I've literally seen NO early reviews for it. o.O I CAN'T WAIT. Creepy and retellings? It's got to be good.
ReplyDeleteI know. It's kinda weird that there is no reviews about it flowing around. But I'm sure more will come once it's released. Fingers crossed it will be good!!
DeleteAwesome choice! Also, this is out tomorrow WOO HOO!
ReplyDeleteBoyanna @The Bookmaidens
Haha yeah :D Lots of good books in April!
Deletelooking forward to reading this
ReplyDeleteI nominated you for the Liebster Awards here: http://ashlyhbooks.blogspot.com/2014/03/liebster-awards-31714.html
you can answer the questions if you want to, if you don't want to its ok.
Thanks for nominating me Ashly! I really appreciate it <3
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