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mmirjamm's review against another edition
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
queer_bookwyrm's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
3 ⭐ CW: Violence, sexual content, torture, sexual assault, animal cruelty
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire is book two in the Wicked Years series, set after the events in Wicked. I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first book. This was really slow and plodding with an unengaging MC.
We follow Liir, the alleged son of the Wicked Witch of the West. Liir is basically useless and one dimensional the whole book. He doesn't really start to have any growth until like 75% through the book. What I did enjoy were the themes around the sociopolitical climate of Oz, and the criticism of different forms of government and their grasp for power and control.
Liir walks all over Oz, alone searching for any clue to his maybe half sister Nor. He becomes a soldier and defects, and finally decides to grow a personality and do something that the Witch probably would have approved of.
It was an interesting read if you're into politics and such, but I probably won't read the next two books in the series.
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire is book two in the Wicked Years series, set after the events in Wicked. I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first book. This was really slow and plodding with an unengaging MC.
We follow Liir, the alleged son of the Wicked Witch of the West. Liir is basically useless and one dimensional the whole book. He doesn't really start to have any growth until like 75% through the book. What I did enjoy were the themes around the sociopolitical climate of Oz, and the criticism of different forms of government and their grasp for power and control.
Liir walks all over Oz, alone searching for any clue to his maybe half sister Nor. He becomes a soldier and defects, and finally decides to grow a personality and do something that the Witch probably would have approved of.
It was an interesting read if you're into politics and such, but I probably won't read the next two books in the series.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault
planetaery's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I have mixed feelings about both this and Wicked, but mostly it left a lot of things unresolved which was really weird. It answered one main point and then you never found out what happened with anything else.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Sexual assault
For the sexual assault,