Book Review: Shadow of Oz

[ozma914]

BOOK REVIEW:

Shadow of Oz

by Nick Damon

We all know Dorothy Gale of Kansas, although you probably imagine her as a teenage Judy Garland, while I picture her as a blonde eleven year old. (There were all these books, you see, and ... oh, never mind.)

In Shadow of Oz Dorothy is all grown up, and now a drone office worker in New York City (apparently in

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[cbtreks]

I've been reading through the archives of tor.com's blog (not the entire archives! I wonder how long that would take...) and one of the series I most enjoyed was a review of the Famous 40 Oz books. It was so much fun! I've only read Baum's and now I want to read the rest. I probably won't get to them this year, but they're definitely on my (never ending) list. Guess I need to add this one too. And yours, when it's done and published! (Take your time, I have a big backlog. *g*

[ozma914]

Boy, don't we all have big backlogs?

My parents got me Baum's 14 novels (the "white" editions, from the late 60s I believe), and for many years I had no idea there were more Oz books than that. Then I stumbled across "The Cowardly Lion of Oz", ironically because in my late teens I'd run out of books in the adult section of the library, and was browsing in the kids section.

I've read many of the later Oz books now, but by no means all of them. Of those I have read, some are pretty darned good and some ... not so much. Like all book series, I guess.

[elizalavelle]

Looks interesting :)

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with Oz when you write a book in that world :)

[ozma914]

So am I! :-) When the time comes, I'm going to be extra careful, though--I want to do this right.