It has been a long time since I have liked an "indie" book as much as I liked this one. While it started off a little slow once the chase began it was never ending action. I loved the changes in Oz and in the characters that we all know and love (as well as the introduction to some of the new ones) and how the story line "grew up" while still being appropriate for young adults. I love how there were scars and hurts to forgive between all the characters as well as Dorothy realizing that nothing was really as she remembered it any longer because, like her, Oz changed while she was away.

I also enjoyed the nods to all the different versions and interpretations of Oz between the names of the witches and the line about "defying gravity". Maybe I read too much into those but they did make me smile.

Was there a lot of back to back on impossible to get out of situations? Did it require a lot of suspension of belief in that our characters faced these challenges back to back and survived (for the most part)? Yes but again it is a book about Oz and to be expected because that is the way it is in all the different stories regarding this mythical land. I am really hoping that there are more in this series because it did end on a slight cliffhanger and I would love to see where else this story arch could go.