Somewhat interesting, but eventually frustrating. The author didn’t answer any of the questions he posed. What was the book? Why was it important? Was Elphaba’s paranoia really paranoia? What was the connection betweent the “other worlds”? And the list goes on. Not to mention the fact that the author seemed to pick and choose elements he wanted to incorporate and/or ignore from the original book.

The style of the chapters was also frustrating. Every time a new section started, the reader had to figure out what was going on because the author fast-forwarded in time. It’s as if he didn’t know how to write the in-between parts, so he just decided to skip it. It seemed to me the parts he left out could have been the most interesting parts of the narrative.

And while the previous four sections seemed like they could have been editted, the last section where Dorothy arrives seems rushed—rushed to try and find a way to make Elphababa meaner and crazier and rushed in the action up to the Witch’s death. Which by the way, shouldn’t a prequel leave off where the original story began? Just didn’t really work for me in style. In theory, I thought it was great. On that level, I’d have to say it was worth reading.