Reviews for Wicked/Son of a Witch (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics)

The average rating for Wicked/Son of a Witch (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-24 00:00:00 Rhonda Terry I loved the first half of Wicked. I was utterly addicted. Then it all fell apart. The writing was superb, don't get me wrong, but there were too many questions and almost NO answers. I read it because I love the West End show but it wasn't anything like it. I feel like it could have been a masterpiece, one of those laugh, cry marvellous books. Instead it just frustrated me. I AM glad I read it. I did like it. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I wanted so much more for Elphaba. SO much more and the author denied her.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-10 00:00:00 Dgc Irwin This review is specifically about "Son of a Witch" since I read "Wicked" over 10 years ago. Some of the world building aspects were hard to follow - though this may be due to the fact I have very vague memories of "Wicked" - so I don't really downgrade my rating of the book for that. One thing I did like was that often Macguire would just drop a comment about something that would be common and obvious to the characters and just leave it at that without explanation. But, it was always for things that didn't change the understanding of the story to not have the details written out about. However, since there were so many made-up words within the book, it sometimes hit the mark with me to use so many obscure words to describe things that probably had a more common similar word. Also, for most of the book it was hard to see what the point of most actions were - and, that can be a good way to set up a story where at the end the seemingly unconnected things become connected. Though that never happened. On the whole, it felt like Macquire had decided on the main action points and flow of the story and just made the characters act so as to advance that predetermined line, even if it didn't follow what we understood the character to be like. It sometimes felt like the author was trying to make some grand statement about something universal, but either came shy of it or got so caught up in grandiose ideas and fancy language that it all became lost.