Wonderful. I don’t think I’ve read of a character whom I consider more like myself than Elphaba. Wildly agnostic, stubborn, with a tendency to speak what’s on her mind (no matter the cost), Maguire painted a character fighting against the odds in a frustrating world and keeps with L. Frank Baum’s theme of reflecting a modern world through certain not-so-apparent analogies as politics and religion. I hope the ending doesn’t escape the praise I have for this book thus far. (Finished: ok, so the ending may have been a bit anticlimactic, but what does one expect after a lifetime of knowing the eventual ending? The rest sufficed for me. Indubitably. Pondering adding as a Fave Book.)