At one point we actually get a trial scene with Eureka being accused of something monstrous and Eureka was just like: "oh who cares?" I was sick of The Wizard at the end of this book.Įxcept for Zeb, the other two new characters, Jim and Eureka were plenty awful.
Why does everyone just forget that fact? Instead The Wizard is still seen as this great powerful person who actually just knows magic tricks and is no more magical than an empty water bottle. I feel like everyone had amnesia from book three onward since everyone just ignores the fact that the Wizard kidnapped Princess Ozma when she was a baby and gave her to the witch Mombi.
We also have Dorothy running back into the hum-bug The Wizard. I think her bossy nature got a bit grating in this one for me. I am totally calling out a children's book right now for being just an okay read.įirst we have Dorothy still running around like a mini-tyrant. Maybe it's because two new characters sucked. I had issues with book three but this one really did not gel for me at all. I feel bad for saying this, but the charm of the first two Oz books has worn off of me. My general feeling once I finished this book was eh. So if you haven't read those books, skip over this review. Please note that this book will spoil events from books one through three. Can't say I really care much for this Oz book at all.įor more book reviews, come visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves. But how would Tip of known anything about real horses if, as it states in this book, there are no real horses in Oz?!?!Īnd that weird trial for Eureka at the end of the book was just.odd.
Besides, if Ozma checked in on her every day at 4:00, why on earth hadn't she made the sign earlier and why didn't any of her companions ask her that when she finally told them about it?!?! Also, I swear that in The Land of Oz right before bringing the Sawhorse to life, Tip was explaining the difference between sawhorses and real horses to Jack Pumpkinhead. In this book all of a sudden, the arrangement was every day at 4:00. In Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and Ozma arranged that Ozma would look in her magic mirror every Saturday morning at 10:00 (my 8yo son remembered that detail specifically!) and if Dorothy made a certain sign, Ozma would wish her to Oz. None of the lands yielded any characters with real staying power.Īnd the inconsistencies make me wonder if Mr. There's the land of vegetable people and the land of creatures made out of wood and the land of invisible people, etc. It just reads as a series of unrelated episodes as Dorothy and her companions stumble along under the earth trying to find their way to the surface again.
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