A review by tregina
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum

2.0

I vividly remember the first time I read this book, because it was the first Oz book I ever read other than the first and as soon as I opened it up and started reading I was like "WTF? Who are these people?" (Only probably not literally WTF because I was still in single digits at the time.) Having read them in sequence now I'm a little less WTF, but still: Oz doesn't even show up until halfway through the book, and plays a very small role overall. At least there is a plot with rising action &c. this time, but Mr. Baum sure wasn't a person worried about continuity at all, was he? And Dorothy, Ozma and Betsy kind of come off as sociopaths, which is probably not what he was intending. Probably.