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No Place Like Oz

de Danielle Paige

Sèrie: Dorothy Must Die (prequel 1)

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Fantasy. Short Stories. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:

There's a new wicked witch in Ozâ??and her name is Dorothy. This 125-page digital novella is a fresh and edgy sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and the prequel to the sassy new epic adventure Dorothy Must Die. No Place Like Oz, by debut author Danielle Paige, is a compellingly original reimagining of a beloved classic and is perfect for fans of Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Beastly by Alex Flinn, and Wicked by Gregory Maguire.

Dorothy clicked her heels three times and returned to Kansas. The end . . . or was it? Although she's happy to be home with Aunt Em, Dorothy has regretted her decision to leave Oz ever since. So when a mysterious gift arrives at her doorstep on her sixteenth birthday, Dorothy jumps at the chance to return to the glittering city that made her a star.

Setting off for the Emerald City, Dorothy is eager to be reunited with her friends: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. But she soon discovers that in the time she's been gone, Oz has changedâ??and Dorothy has, too. This time, the yellow brick road leads her down a very different path. And before her journey is through, Dorothy will find that the line between wicked and good has become so blurred she's not sure which side of it she's on… (més)

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Much like Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, in movie form and book form, terrified me as a child. I can't say why--there was just something about Dorothy's journey that terrified me (I read many of the other Oz books perfectly fine however). I was certain that Dorothy was the HEROINE of the book though (in a way Peter Pan never was and Alice couldn't really be). She was going to right a wrong, save a bunch of people and be the HERO.

Paige tosses that all on its head and until Ozma says something I was violently against the notion. And then Ozma says something to Dorothy that hit what had bothered me so much about The Wizard of Oz--Glinda survived all those years with two evil wicked witches running amok. Untold years. As a child I didn't believe in absolute evil and absolute good--the world was a gray gray place* and I exerted that belief onto anything I read or watched.

So unlike almost everyone else in Oz I didn't believe that Glinda was as pink and fluffy and altruistic as she appeared. There HAD to be an ulterior motive. Paige answers that question and in the process made me desperate for more.

From the beginning Paige paints Dorothy as a restless girl. She's kind of resigned to the fact her life is now dull, poor and ordinary. The few moments of excitement she exhibits are reserved for when people discuss her past exploit as "The Girl Who Rode a Cyclone" or when she thinks of being in Oz. Her Aunt and Uncle, while giving her all the love she could ever want, judge her for her "fairy tale" about Oz. Her best friend Mitzy basically dropped her like a sack of potatoes because Dorothy insisted on talking about Oz. The most popular/rich girl in school taunted her at every turn.

And she saw no avenue of escape. Ever.

I sympathisized with her at first. Though she began acting a bit more bratty and selfish (even before the corrupting influence of the shoes), I could see why she felt so depressed. Kansas as she paints it was deadly dull, she could look forward to a life stuck on a farm (or close to one) with a guy who doesn't think beyond feeding the animals on time, in homespun dresses twenty years out of fashion. She's 16 and wants more.

I started to lose patience with her pretty rapidly in Oz. Instead of trying to assure her uncle and aunt, she repeatedly presses them to forget Kansas. Instead of taking the time to listen to them she snaps at them to do what she wants. She pushes and cajoles and manipulates them over and over again. I could understand if it was desperation over saving Glinda or if Dorothy was more then cursorily interested in the changes of Oz, but Paige makes it very clear that Dorothy wants what Dorothy wants.

The end, when Dorothy gets what she wants, is a little heart breaking. Magic has a price and Dorothy's is steeper then she would have paid otherwise (I hope, I'm not sure honestly). It will be interesting in DOROTHY MUST DIE how this new "girl from Kansas" views things. How Dorothy will appear now a century (in our time) later to a girl who comes from a time when Dorothy's exploits are a thing of fiction and romanticized. ( )
  lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |
4.5 stars. I loved this book, I loved finding out about how Dorothy got back to Oz and how she became dark and evil. I liked learning more about Ozma as well and seeing how Oz was before Dorothy took over. This was a really great novella and it makes me want to read the next book so bad. I need it now! ( )
  VanessaMarieBooks | Dec 10, 2023 |
It is a thing now for writers to write this novellas to their books. I have not read any of them before and these two did not change my mind. I have not read any before because I believed that if something was really important it will be in the book. I was right. These two are not bad. The stories are just fine but they really do not add anything to the overall story arc. Yes it was interesting to learn that Glinda summoned Dorothy back to Oz because Ozma will not be easily controlled but it unneeded to read the book. The second one about Jellia was not as interesting. Again the writing was fine but nothing was really added. But now I have done the read the novellas thing and I will not be doing it again.

I give these two novellas a Three out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this novellas from Amazon with my own money. ( )
  lrainey | May 25, 2016 |
So we finally get to find out how Dorothy made it back to Oz and how she came to be in power. When I was reading Dorothy Must Die, it never occurred to me to wonder about Aunt Em and Uncle Henry…let's just say their story is full of irony and leave it at that. No Place Like Oz focuses on what makes Dorothy tick and her relationship with Ozma is especially interesting. We get a glimpse of her three companions at their midpoint of transformation into the monsters we met in the first book of the series. I think it's particularly clever of Danielle Paige to structure her series like this. The reader is able to get all of the back story on the main characters in short bursts to hold them over until the next book in the series is out. I do hope, however, that she'll release everything in print as a nice box set (I love a good box set, y'all). ( )
  AliceaP | Jun 5, 2015 |
I should preface all of this by telling everyone that I am a HUGE fan of everything Oz related. My mom’s favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz, so I was introduced to it all at a fairly young age. I like the movie, I own the books by Frank L. Baum, I’ve seen Oz the Great and Powerful, and Wicked is my favorite musical. I even have the DVD for the SyFy mini-series, Tin Man. So the Dorothy Must Die series is really the perfect thing for me to read. On top of it all, I love it when some takes a well-known story or character and puts their own twist on it.

As I’m sure you can guess, my expectations for the book series are pretty high. I’ve read some reviews for Dorothy Must Die and the majority of people seem underwhelmed by it. The biggest complaint seems to be a very slow start. So I decided to start with the prequels. Seemed logical to me. No Place Like Oz is the first of two prequels, so far.

No Place Like Oz actually starts off a bit slow. There’s a reason for it (character/time explanations), but it’s still noticeably slow. It doesn’t really pick up until Dorothy gets back to Oz (this isn’t a spoiler, it’s in the description). Once she made it back to Oz (holy crap!) I didn’t want to put No Place Like Oz down. There’s a lot of action at the end and even before that the character interactions in Oz will leave you wanting more.

Dorothy is not likable. When she’s in Kansas, she’s a whiny, spoiled brat. When she gets back to Oz, she gets worse because anger and a sense of entitlement enter the mix. I’ve gathered (from the title of book 1) that she’s the villain, so she’s not supposed to be likable. I always thought Dorothy was a bit of a whiner though. You get transported to a magical land and all you can do is complain and whine about wanting to go home. Enjoy it! It would be understandable to be apprehensive about a new place and scared of the witches, but stop whining and enjoy the adventure! (That became more of a rant than I intended.) Overall, I loved the changes in some of the most famous characters out there. Whether we’re talking about Dorothy, Glinda, the scarecrow or anyone else, I loved the tweaks that could actually be realistic.

I would definitely recommend No Place Like Oz, especially if you haven’t already read Dorothy Must Die. If you’ve already read Dorothy Must Die, I would still read No Place Like Oz for some more background. Overall though, I would say when it comes to this particular series, START WITH THE PREQUELS! Read No Place Like Oz first and go from there, if possible.

For more reviews, check out http://reviewsinapinch.com/ today! ( )
  ReviewsInAPinch | Nov 24, 2014 |
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Fantasy. Short Stories. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:

There's a new wicked witch in Ozâ??and her name is Dorothy. This 125-page digital novella is a fresh and edgy sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and the prequel to the sassy new epic adventure Dorothy Must Die. No Place Like Oz, by debut author Danielle Paige, is a compellingly original reimagining of a beloved classic and is perfect for fans of Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Beastly by Alex Flinn, and Wicked by Gregory Maguire.

Dorothy clicked her heels three times and returned to Kansas. The end . . . or was it? Although she's happy to be home with Aunt Em, Dorothy has regretted her decision to leave Oz ever since. So when a mysterious gift arrives at her doorstep on her sixteenth birthday, Dorothy jumps at the chance to return to the glittering city that made her a star.

Setting off for the Emerald City, Dorothy is eager to be reunited with her friends: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. But she soon discovers that in the time she's been gone, Oz has changedâ??and Dorothy has, too. This time, the yellow brick road leads her down a very different path. And before her journey is through, Dorothy will find that the line between wicked and good has become so blurred she's not sure which side of it she's on

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