āMaguireās work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.ā
āLos Angeles Times Book Review
Bestselling author Gregory Maguireās remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of āthe magical land of Oz.ā Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baumās world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrestāplacing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguireās magnificent Oz finaleātying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked, the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.