A review by bargainbookquest
Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum

3.0

3.75 or 4*; I am undecided.

This book doesn't feel like an Oz book but the author still has a mismatch group of characters on an adventure with a mission to find and rescue one's parents and people of Oz only come up by the last few chapters of the book. Mainly Dorothy but it feels like the author had to make her the heroine here but it was unecessary, I feel, since basically everything was resolving itself and by the main characters already. Oh well. It was still a strong book none the less.

The title of this book is still sort of misleading but Rinkitink is an important character throughout this book, unlike the other previously misleading titled books. He has a very annoying sense of humour and laugh though. Geez. I just wanted to slap him accross the face multiple times.

Also, it might be just me and the fact I didn't listen to the book from beginning to end in one go but every time Inga was mentioned, I had to do a double take and wonder why Inga and "he/him..." were in the same sentence. I am so used to hearing/reading the name being linked to a woman/girl that it confused me here and took me out of the story for a couple minutes. Oh well.

This is book 10; the author intended only 6 books for Oz but he was so bombarded by fan letters that he had to keep going but it is starting to feel like he's reaching with adding Dorothy at the end just so the reader remembers this is still happening in the Oz land/universe. Let's hope the other 4 books are good; it would be sad to end this collection with bad reviews, you know.