New book in The Wicked Years series!

Look what I came across today while browsing Amazon! I've been so caught up in Historical Fiction World that I had no clue Gregory Maguire was writing another book for The Wicked Year series. What amazing books they are!! The first in the series is Wicked (obviously) and the follow up, Son of A Witch (I love that title).

The third book is A Lion Among Men and is a story about the Cowardly Lion (my favorite character in The Wizard of Oz).

I plan on re-reading the first two novels before delving into this one and will post my reviews after. Wow - I just thought of something...these books will be the ONLY non-historical fiction novels I have read yet this year! Can you say I'm a little obsessed?!

Here is the synopsis:

Since Wicked was first published in 1995, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the 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 in Oz, 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, who hovered on the sidelines of Elphaba's life, demands some answers of her own.

Brrr surrenders his story to the ailing maunt: Abandoned as a cub, his earliest memories are gluey hazes, and his path from infancy in the Great Gillikin Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he trudges through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, and falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess. In the wake of laws that oppress talking Animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz.

A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. What does the Lion know of the whereabouts of the Witch's boy, Liir? What can Yackle reveal about the auguries of the Clock of the Time Dragon? And what of the Grimmerie, the magic book that vanished as quickly as Elphaba? Is destiny ever arbitrary? Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets—cowardly, wicked, brainless, criminally earnest—to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?

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.

2 comments:

  1. Wow! I totally would have missed this! Thanks for the heads up.

    Lezlie

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  2. Well now, I know I have 'Wicked' around here somewhere (digging through shelves/boxes/closets of book). I never read it. Guess I'll have to find it and get to reading that one...I just love a good series.

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