Abandoned by Booklikes

So I hated this book. Like a lot. I got this way back in February and only finished it in July because I started going through my Kindle device and started downloading books to read back in February. I originally only read 4 percent and said nope and put the book aside. When I finished it in July I decided that was it for me, no more Oz books. The only saving grace is that I didn't pay money for it. I got it for free on Amazon.

Dorothy is still a pain in the butt who doesn't have the common sense to get out of the rain. Her "speaking" is downright annoying at this point in the series. I think I may have screamed enunciate at one point and screamed it so loud I blacked out.

We also have some new characters in this book called the Shaggy Man (who I swear was about to do something awful to Dorothy, Button-Bright, and Polychrome who is a daughter of the Rainbow.

What starts off this new adventure is that when Dorothy meets the Shaggy Man he asks her for directions, and instead of just giving them to this total stranger, she decides to show him the way. I swear Dorothy needs to be held up as literary symbol to children to not ever do things like this when they are reading this book. I mean in the book Dorothy calls the Shaggy Man stupid so she decides she must take him to Butterfield (the place he is going) and actually says out loud that the man is stupid.

After going down a path (the 7th one) the party of three comes upon Button-Bright. Once again we have Dorothy calling someone stupid after knowing them for all of five minutes.

Eventually the foursome comes across a strange village of talking foxes and from there the story just progresses until they meet up with Polychrome. Shockingly enough Dorothy doesn't call her stupid.

From there there is a just a series of adventures of the new group of five to get to The Emerald City where Dorothy surmises that Ozma of Oz will be able to help them all out.

We have some reappearances of fan favorites of the series. We have Billina the talking hen who to this day was the funniest character ever for reading Dorothy like she was a book.

There was also Tik-Tok who was sent off to fetch Dorothy by Ozma. I did wonder why the heck Ozma didn't just magic herself to Dorothy and crew and magic them back to Emerald City, but hey that would have made the book end at about 60 percent (which I would have been happy with...like a lot).

We also have the Tin Man (not a fan of his at all) and he is still Emperor though there doesn't appear to be anyone else around in his castle. It was so weird and I couldn't guess why and really didn't care at that point.

We even have The Cowardly Lion, the Tiger, and Jack in this one. I loved them all in earlier works, but this one, eh not so much.

There really isn't anything new in this series at this point. We have a series of adventures and Dorothy scolding people left, right, and sideways. We have the not too bright character actually appearing to have some sense. And we have everything wrapping up nicely in the end with another party in Oz.