I started reading this novel right before the beginning of summer, and so I was instantly hooked! It felt right! It was so eerie and dark and wicked that I couldn’t help but feel like this was going to be an unforgettable experience!īefore going deeper into spoilers, about which I’ll make sure to inform you, I want to point out the technical parts of this novel, aka the voice, the structure, the vocabulary, narration and descriptions, as well as the development of the plot and characters. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.” And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.īut only Penny sees what others cannot. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. The townspeople turn against one another. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. And there are some books with which you identify so very much with, that you can’t do anything else but adore them!Īnd that’s basically what happened to me when I read The Wicked Deep, this mesmerising YA standalone novel, that I think it combines perfectly the genres of Fantasy and Magical Realism. EVERY OPINION EXPRESSED HERE IS ENTIRELY MY OWN I DON’T MEAN TO OFFEND YOU BY ANY MEANS!*
That's why it might be a wiser idea to venture further into the Oz universe, instead of remaking Dorothy's classic yellow brick road sojourn over and over again.*DISCLAIMER! THIS REVIEW WILL BE QUITE LONG, FILLED WITH HECTIC SPOILERS AND (POSSIBLY) A LOT OF SWEARING. Throughout these novels, Baum crafted dozens of characters deserving of movie treatment, from Polychrome to Button Bright. While "Return to Oz" did finally bring some iconic Oz characters into live-action, darkness was never the point of Baum's work. And what a work it was: there are 14 "Oz" books and four short story compilations, not even getting into the volumes written by other authors after his passing. Thus far, the closest we've gotten is 1985's remarkably dark "Return to Oz," and if you saw that movie as a kid, you certainly still carry the mental scars from it.
Sure, we're all familiar with Baum's first book, which famously became the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," but Baum's stories about that magical land didn't end after Dorothy Gale tripped her way back over the rainbow - in fact, the best stuff was packed into numerous sequel novels.
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