This book was recommended to me by a friend and since I had nothing left to read and had been curious about this one for a while already, I decided to give it a go. I'm glad I did. Thanks to my friend for the recommendation! 
 I had two main reasons for being hesitant to read the DOROTHY MUST DIE books. One, I'm a crazy fangirl of the musical WICKED and I was afraid these different WIZARD OF OZ sequels would somehow change my view on that. (It didn't. DOROTHY MUST DIE is so very different from WICKED, I was able to just backtrack on everything I know about the musical and only take my knowledge of THE WIZARD OF OZ as vantage point.) Two, to be honest, the story didn't really grip me. Teenage girl who doesn't fit in at home or at school gets swept away to Oz, Dorothy-style, and there turnes out to be the chosen one to bring down Dorothy Gale herself, who has become a tyrant. This book is so much more than that, though. 
 Amy Gumm is an awkward teenager who gets in fights without intending to and who has a crappy family life. She unexpectedly ends up in Oz and when she realises she's definitely not in Kansas anymore, she slowly but surely learns that Oz isn't the great land it was made out to be in the stories about Dorothy and the Wizard - at least, not anymore. She makes friends, but no-one in Oz can be trusted and no-one is ever safe from Dorothy and her once-friendly-now-turned-monstrous companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion. Some parts of this book are actually slightly dark and/or gory, which wasn't what I had expected at all. The story sounds a little cliche, but somehow while I was reading it, it didn't feel that way. There are so many little twists and turns that make it an interesting read that keeps you on the edge of your seat and that never gets predictable or boring. I'll definitely be moving on to the next book in the trilogy!