“This wasn’t the Oz that I had read about or seen in the movie. It was as if someone had drained out some of the Technicolor and introduced some serious darkness.” That’s how Amy describes Oz when she first finds herself there on page twenty-nine, and it’s the perfect quote to describe Danielle...
Title - No Place Like OzAuthor - Danielle PaigeSummary - It has been two years since Dorothy has returned from Oz. Two years back home where she so wanted to be. Only home isn't the same anymore. She has no friends and Kansas doesn't really compete with the wonders of Oz. So on her sixteenth birt...
I really liked Dorothy Must Die. I enjoyed the first prequel--seeing how Dorothy ended up as the dictator she did was great. I was really looking forward to the next book in the series.This has destroyed my enthusiasm. It didn't add to the narrative in any way that couldn't be incorporated int...
I was informed of my trashiness on the playground by Madison Pendleton, a girl in a pink Target sweat suit who thought she was all that because her house had one and a half bathrooms. “Salvation Amy’s trailer trash,” she told the other girls on the monkey bars while I was dangling upside down by ...
Nox was saying. I felt a hand patting the side of my face desperately. “Amy, get up. You have to wake up.”My whole body shuddered as a sulfuric, noxious smell filled my lungs. It smelled like burning hair, but worse. I coughed, hacking, as my eyes fluttered open, and I saw Nox’s stricken face loo...
The sun had set, and the monkeys’ city was lit by hundreds of glowing yellow balls that floated in the air. “Sunfruit,” Iris said, in answer to his unasked question. “You can eat it if no one remembers to bring you dinner, but then you won’t have a light.” Hex soon lost any sense of direction. If...
This time I was sure it was a dream. Everything felt sharper than usual, more surreal. “You know where Bale is, don’t you?” The ceiling was gone. Glittery white snow fell from the darkness above and filled the room. “You have him.” “I don’t,” he said with difficulty. The snow landed on him softly...
Ora couldn’t wait to hear what the palace was like. Margot could tell that Ora cared about what happened to Go; but she also wanted to know about the royal family, what the castle looked like, and how the Prince was. If Margot didn’t know better, she would have thought that Ora wanted to be a pri...
It was crowded with mysterious, vaguely scientific-looking instruments, long laboratory tables and beakers and flasks full of colorful liquids and powders. Looking around the room, I was struck by how many different types of magic there were in Oz, and how many different ways there were of practi...
Dorothy and Nox were gone. The sun filtered down through a green canopy of leaves. Birds sang in the branches, and the trees around me dripped frothy masses of green moss. The air was as warm as bathwater. The road beneath my feet looked like the perfect version of the Road of Yellow Brick; it wa...
He knew that promise, like most of the things she’d said, was a lie. Or the truth presented in a way to get what she wanted. One of the things that she’d told him turned out to be more true than all the rest. It didn’t matter how much information he crammed into his brain, it was about how well h...
There was no road. “So what do we do to get her out of there?” asked Lazar. “We don’t do anything. I can handle this. I’ll call you if I need you.” “I promise I’ll behave. I just need to know that she’s okay.” Nepenthe relented. It was the second time in as many days that Lazar had given her his ...
I was lying on my back on something hard. When I shifted cautiously, the pain shooting through my body was so awful that I gasped aloud. “Ah, she’s awake,” said a gentle voice nearby, and the darkness was suffused with a cool white glow that gradually brightened until I could make out what surrou...