Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Mashup a standard Young Adult dystopian fare with a fairy tale, and you'll get Dorothy Must Die.

Amy Gumm, an outsider and loner at her Kansas high school, unwillingly travels to the Land of Oz via tornado, and finds things are not going well.

Dorothy, the heroine from the classical tale has turned evil and is draining the magic from the land, with the help of her now evil and cruel friends the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion.

Amy is recruited and eventually trained by the Evil Witches to infiltrate Dorothy's palace and assassinate her.

Along the way she will find some allies, but will also be constantly reminded everything is more than meets the eye, and no one can be trusted.

So far, pretty much what I expected. Towards the end, things got very interesting, nicely setting up the sequels in this series.

Originally I intended to read just the first one, but now I am genuinely intrigued as to what will happen next.

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