There's a huge gotcha at the end of the book, leading to a cliffhanger, guaranteed to get readers salivating for the next book. Her training and infiltration of the palace staff after morphing into the exact image of one of Dorothy's maids, takes up most of the book.There's a lot of violence and some profanity here, that while appropriate to the story line, will be problematic for some teens and libraries. She's trained to fight and hone her own magic because she's going to have to kill Dorothy.

Mombi, one of the original witches and Amy fight the Tin Man and his minions, but have to use magic to disappear.Amy lands in a cavern where she meets Nox, a boy who is a bit older than she is and just as enigmatic as Pete. Just before she's about to be hauled off to her trial, this ugly woman appears and offers her a chance to join the wicked side (which is now the good side, or so she's led to believe). Mysterious Pete appears twice in her cell, hinting that she's the one who can fix the mess that is Oz, but he can't really help her. Amy's first friend, Indigo, a tat-covered Munchkin is killed by Dorothy before Amy's eyes when they reach the Emerald City and Amy is imprisoned. Dorothy is greedy, cruel and obsessed with gathering all the magic at the risk of destroying Oz in the process. When a tornado whisks her double-wide away, she and her pet rat, Star, land on the edge of a bottomless canyon and are rescued by Pete, a boy her age who has amazing eyes and won't tell her much.Amy is in Oz, but things are completely different than we're used to. She endures her losses (father abandoned the family, mom is lost in a haze of drugs and alcohol, kids at school treat her like she's trailer trash), helps a popular boy because he wants to leave as much as she does, and hurts inside. Read moreĪmy Gumm (perfect name) endures. They say she seized power and the power went to her head.

They say she found a way to come back to Oz. There's still a road of yellow brick-but even that's crumbling. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. But I never expected Oz to look like this. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado-taking you with it-you have no choice but to go along, you know? And I have a mission: Remove the Tin Woodman's heart. I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. My name is Amy Gumm-and I'm the other girl from Kansas. Start at the beginning and discover your new series to binge! The New York Times bestselling first book in a dark series that reimagines the Oz saga, from debut author Danielle Paige.

Dorothy must die