Book title: The End of Oz (Dorothy Must Die #4)
Author: Danielle Paige
Publisher: HarperCollins
Number of pages: 304
Genre: fantasy, retellings, young adult, magic, fairy tales, adventure
Release Date: March 17th 2017
Favorite Quotes:
“You had to feel strongly enough about someone in the first place to hate them.”
“But if there was one thing I’d learned the hard way in Oz, knowing the truth was always better than being in the dark.”
“I will help you as much as I can. I will hear you when you call me. Be strong. There is more power aiding you than you know.”
“And then Nox reached forward and took my hand. I felt something stir to life within me at his touch. Not magic, exactly—something else. Trust. Love. Safety.”
“we must come to terms with the wounds of our past if we are to survive the future.”
“Power will always corrupt those who have not learned to serve it properly,” Lurline said.”
“She wasn’t fighting injustice—she was creating it, ever since she’d returned to Oz.”
“If I could just undo the tangle and weave the threads together . . . but for now, the knot was too dense for me to unravel.”
“Oz had made me stronger, had given me magic and friends and love. Oz had given me something to fight for.”
“And I knew in that moment, whatever else was to come, whatever we might do to each other in the end, this moment was real. Neither one of us was pretending to be anything other than what we were.”
“It was just my luck to find the person of my dreams in a war-torn world where I was in danger of losing him any minute, I thought.”
“But maybe that was what life was like for everyone. Okay, so people weren’t literally on the verge of being killed all the time back in Kansas, but everyone around you was changing and growing all the time and turning into different people.”
“Nox had changed, but he had only gotten better. He was a good guy with a moral compass that was fixed on North. And now he was my guy, with the same compass, but with a heart that was open to me.”
“I couldn’t change his feelings. I could tell him what I thought, but he had his own path to work through. All I could do was support him through it and hope that someday he learned to forgive himself, that he realized he was caught in an impossible situation.”
“My journey down the Road of Yellow Brick had been a clarifying one—I knew myself better now. And I was stronger.”
“Friendship doesn’t have to be selfless—but it works best when your interests line up.”
“They say history repeats itself. I just hoped the ending was better this time.”
“Everything I’d been through, everything I’d learned, every battle I’d fought, had all been part of my journey toward the truth. To knowing that another world was possible if we took responsibility for creating it.”
“But knowing and doing are two different things.”
“If we changed the past—if Dorothy Gale never returned to Oz to become a tyrant—it also meant I’d be undoing everything else, too. I’d be undoing the very thing that had brought me here…”
“You chose the good of all over the desires of your heart. And for that, there is one thing I can give you in return.”
“That face—you never managed to build a wall instead of a window,” he said, lifting my chin up.”
“I know,” he said, kissing me. “I have to let you go.”
“Madison was always trying to remind me that there was magic in this world, too. We just had to work a lot harder to see it.”
“There was magic on both sides of the rainbow. And there was no law that said that I had to choose one place over another forever.”
Goodreads Synopsis:
Ding dong—Dorothy is dead.
I watched as the Emerald Palace crumbled to the ground, burying Dorothy, the Girl Who Rode the Cyclone, under the rubble. And now that the rightful ruler, Ozma, has been restored to the throne…
Oz is finally free.
My name is Amy Gumm. You might remember me as the other girl from Kansas. When a tornado whisked me away to the magical land of Oz, I was given a mission: Dorothy must die.
But it turns out girls from Kansas are harder to kill than we look.
Now the Road of Yellow Brick is leading me away from Oz to the dark world of Ev, where I have a new, powerful enemy to deal with: the Nome King. And—surprise—he has a gingham-clad bride.
With my magical shoes and a shrinking group of allies, I have one final chance to fulfill my mission, and save not only what’s left of Oz, but Kansas, too. As the line between Good and Wicked blurs even further, I have to find a way to get rid of Dorothy once and for all—without turning into a monster myself.
Dorothy once said there’s no place like home. Can I stop her from destroying mine?
My Review:
5/5 stars
After reading this series, I would say that it was one of the best representations of character development that I have read. In the beginning of the series, Amy Gumm felt non-existent and undervalued by her mom and people at school in her small town of Flat Hill, Kansas. She is then thrown into the chaos of Oz where she is relied upon to help save Oz and it’s people. She learns to find the strength inside herself throughout the series and gains the confidence to try and defeat the Nome King and of course Dorothy.
People that read this final book can easily relate to how far Amy has come. Obviously not every aspect because this book is a work of fiction, but everyone at some point in their life will experience hardships in their life and are thrown curveballs. It takes a lot for someone to not repeat mistakes of their past and instead learn from them.
I feel like many will enjoy reading this book/series because, yes this book is absolutely an adventure story, but it was more than that. It’s about finding out who you are and how your experiences can impact the type of person you can become.
I would highly recommend this series!
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