This is a really good story. I picked this up more than a year ago and started it then forgot all about it till last week. When I found it again and realized I had never finished reading it I got right back into it. I love the wicked witch of the west, not so much Glinda or the witch of the east. How the story does change depending on who is doing the telling, or which point of view we see it from. Dorothy is a sort of minor character in this version of events as she should be. This is Elfaba's story and an interesting one it is. She is a complicated and surprising character. I would like to read the other Maguire versions of those other familiar tales. Great storytelling, now I have to see the musical!