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| Title | : | A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years #3) |
| Author | : | Gregory Maguire |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 312 pages |
| Published | : | October 14th 2008 by William Morrow |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction |
Gregory Maguire
Hardcover | Pages: 312 pages Rating: 3.31 | 26269 Users | 1992 Reviews
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In this much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion - the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked. While civil war looms, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr - the Cowardly Lion - arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. As payment, Yackle demands some answers of her own. Brrr surrenders his story: abandoned as a cub, his earliest memories are gluey hazes, and his life's path is no Yellow Brick Road. A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.
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| Original Title: | A Lion Among Men |
| ISBN: | 0060548924 (ISBN13: 9780060548926) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wicked Years #3 |
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Ratings: 3.31 From 26269 Users | 1992 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years #3)
What a disappointment! Wicked was an act of amazing and original brilliance, taking a world that we are all familiar with, and turning it completely upside down. Brilliantly imagined and equally brilliantly realized, one of its strongest suits was the way in which Maguire took elements of the original books, (not just Wizard) and wove them together into a familiar and yet wholly new world. Since then, his approach to the series feels labored and incomprehensible to me. Son of a Witch was weak,Arg! Just finished this last night, and it has the same curse as "Son of a Witch," in that it reveals just so much, but leaves you with so many more questions. I'd really hoped, for the satement of my curiosity, that this would be the last book, in which all is revealed. But, no. Which some day will be magnificent, when we sit down with the many books in this series, a cup of coffee, a warm blanket, and days and days ahead to gorge on this delightful brain candy. For now, I am agonized over the
Considering how much I enjoyed Wicked, and how much more I enjoyed Son of a Witch, I found A Lion Among Men disappointing. I was all geared up to find out what happens with Liir and you-know-what-from-the-end-of-Son of a Witch, but the third book in this series barely mentions him. Instead, this book focuses primarily on the Cowardly Lion and his life experiences, and touches a bit on Fiyero's daughter. I found the author's language annoying, if not incomprehensible at times (or maybe I just
It has been three long years since we last traveled to OZ. And much has changed.The land, once joined together, is now separated into two parties: those that support the current Wizard of OZ and the Munchkinlanders who long to be free and their own people.It is not the OZ weve come to know. It is an OZ on the brink of war and on the cusp of social change. Whether it is change for the better remains to be seen.Heedless of the turmoil of OZ that surrounds him, Brr, The Cowardly Lion, is on a
The lion is just as annoying as the witch's son.
The third book in Maguire's return to Oz fills in some gaps in the ongoing storyline, and has a few moments, but overall falls short of the entrancing epic of "Wicked."I enjoyed the book, and am glad to have read it, but wouldn't put it in the 'classic' status like "Wicked" or in my "must read again" bookshelf.
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