Hello and happy Thursday. Also, yes, happy 2024. May this new year bring beautiful things to you and your loved ones. Let’s hope it also brings us amazing reads and, hopefully, many posts. I know I promised more reviews during my vacation, but I underestimated the last weeks of December and how hectic they get. And look at us now, we’re already in January and next week I’ll go back to work, albeit virtually for a few days. I know you don’t care about that, you care about the second book of the Dorothy Must Die series by Danielle Paige.

Like I just said, The Wicked Will Rise is the second book in a series, so of course, a lot happened in the previous one that I’m not going to tell you about, mostly because I’ve forgotten since I read it many years ago. Basically, what you need to know is that in this series Dorothy is evil and we have Amy, another teenager from Kansas, who is thrown in Oz because of a cyclone. Amy is tasked with killing Dorothy, as the title of the first book suggests, and obviously she doesn’t because if she does we wouldn’t have a full-on series, right? She doesn’t kill Dorothy in the second book either, just so you know.

The Wicked Will Rise suffered from middle-book syndrome like no other book I’d read. It started in the middle of a scene, which I remembered because I was kind of frustrated that that was the way in which Dorothy Must Die ended, and it felt like an unfinished scene throughout. It also felt like it was a Wattpad novel, which is always super fun. Will I continue the series until I finish it? Yes. Will I enjoy it? Hopefully.