by Gregory Maguire
This is the story of Brr, the Cowardly Lion ... who, having been sent on a mission to interview Mother Yackle about the Wicked Witch's Grimmerie, is finding out more about himself than about the book.As with Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Maguire demonstrates his fondnes...
I love Maguire's style and use of language. As he writes, I can hear his voice narrating and performing (which is why I won't spoil it with the audiobook, Maguire himself is a wonderful performer, and it was a delight to see him in person.) Lion is not as compelling as the previous two books, but ga...
least fav. But ending has me wondering.
In the third book of The Wicked Years series, we learn the story of Brrr, better known as the Cowardly Lion. Told mainly in retrospect, as he remembers his past, we get an interesting look at the Cowardly Lion, mainly a bit player in the life of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. He made many ...
Another good book that leaves an opening for another sequel. This did tie up lose ends for the Wicked Witch and gave a little more insight to Dorothy. I think we need the Wizard's point of view next.
As the third book in a series, A Lion Among Men is a bad book: its timeline is mostly contemporaneous with the previous two books and it fails to appreciably move the overall plot forward; Liir and company from the previous book don’t even appear in this one. Thinking of it as a companion book inste...
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