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Adult Content Advisory that Wicked sent up the flagpole continues to wave and flap. This book explores some mature themes in political and private life with sometimes disturbing imagery, coarse language, and a relentless realism that casts an ominous shadow across the innocent, optimistic world of Oz. Also, there’s the sex, sex, more sex, some of it of the troubling boy-on-boy persuasion.

Ugh! I love Wicked, but this book is so disjointed, and I'm bored. I'm just trudging through at this point, so that I can get to the next book in the series. ( )

Liir tiene catorce años y un montón de preguntas. Siempre ha estado con Elphaba, la bruja de piel verde, pero no sabe si ella es su verdadera madre. Cuando ésta muerte, Liir emprende un viaje para descubrir su identidad y su lugar en el mundo. Unos días más tarde se despierta malherido y asustado en un monasterio junto a Candle, una misteriosa joven novicia muda, Liir pronto descubrirá que sus problemas n han hecho más que empezar.

Synopsis: 'Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But he is tended to at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape - but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? in a Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?'
Review: If you can hang on until the middle of the book, this becomes an okay story. I found much of it tedious and the main character inept. The ending made me think of the retort, 'another male behaving badly.' ( )

Liir tries to figure out if he is the son of the wicked witch or not and to figure out the meaning of his life. The book starts with him in a coma and keeps flashing back to his earlier life. He lives in the land of Oz which is filled with corruption showing the dark side of human nature. Characters from the original Oz book play a part in his life including Glenda who is not completely a good witch and the Scarecrow. ( )