Friday, October 9, 2020

Dorothy Must Die Book Review

Book: Dorothy Must Die

Author: Danielle Paige

Pages: 452

Publisher: Harper Collins 

Publish Date: April 1st 2014

My Goodreads Rating: 3*



First Thoughts

I’ve seen this when ever I type Dorothy into amazon but never really clicked to see what it’s about.  As luck would have it while I was looking through the books at teen challenge store (it’s not my favourite store for the simple fact that it’s not well organized for books, but the prices are great.  $1 CAD, for a hardback book)


It’s loosely based on The Wizard of Oz





While Reading

I am absolutely loving the book. It could be classed as a YA book. 


I’m actually really enjoying the book. It’s got elements of The Wizard of Oz through out the book, but I love the twists to the story. 


I am about half way through and while I like the book I am really struggling with the middle part.  I like how the author is playing on The Wizard of Oz but at the moment I feel it’s a bit flat. I feel that it’s taking to long to get to the point.  I can only read a few pages at a time which is completely different from the beginning of the book. 


The last few chapters I skimmed over.  




Conclusion 

I’m not a fast reader which is obvious by how long it took me to read the book. For me I felt that the book started off great and after a while it got to the point where it was just dragging on a lot. I wasn’t picking it up and ended up skimming over the last few chapters.  I felt that it dragged on because it’s a series rather than a stand alone book. 


I felt that the book dragged on, and it could easily be just a stand alone book rather than a series.   I had really high hopes for the book when I first started reading it, but it fell way short of actually being any good.  


I think it’s a shame that I didn’t like the book by the end because normally with first books of the series I want to read the second book and dislike it from then on such as the Matched trilogy or the Lunar Chronicles 


  • Would I Read Another Book By The Author?

Yes and no.  So Dorothy Must Die is book one of a series but I always find it hard to get into second books. But I’d read another book by Danielle Paige just to see what her writing is like. 



  • How long did it take me to read?

It took way to long for me to read what I did read.  I normally know when a book is good because I can’t put it down, and finish it within a week, but this took me well over 2 or 3 weeks. 

Thursday, October 1, 2020

September 2020



Books Read: 0


How I Felt This Month

This month was a really difficult month with reading for me if I am being completely honest.  At the end of August I started to feel bored with reading even though I was reading, you’ll have noticed I never uploaded my august wrap up even though I read.  


By the time September came around, I wanted to get some new books, so I headed up to a thrift store near where I live as it’s the easiest to get to at the moment in the whole pandemic ðŸ˜·. While it’s a great thrift store for prices of books, it’s not organized great, and I always feel overwhelmed by it. 


But I did find two books. The Night Circus by Erin Morganstien & Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige.  Both had been on my To Buy at Some Point list, and so for a dollar a piece I couldn’t pass them up.  I really wish that there were more books or that it was well organized but beggers can’t be choosers and I found two books which is better then nothing.  


I started reading The Night Circus, and hated what I read that I have up.  It was plain awful and all over the place.  To the point where I couldn’t even get half way without DNFing the book.  I liked the premise of the book, but I couldn’t get into it.  I gave it a fair chance and I hate it.  




I’m currently reading Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige and I really like it.  I’ve never seen anyone review the book, but every time I would type in Dorothy, the book would come up. I had no idea what it was about but it’s an interesting and different play on The Wizard of Oz. 


Though I haven’t read any books in full this month, I don’t really mind because I am so far ahead on my good reads challenge.