Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

What Gregory Maguire has done here is nothing short of remarkable. Taking one of the most well known villains in literature/cinema and having the reader genuinely like and root for her. Even though I knew how the tale would undoubtedly end, I hoped it would not happen, and that is not to say that this book was a disappointment, it was far from that. The whole perspective change of the story was flawlessly done and by doing so made some of the most dynamic characters I have read, and oddly at the same time the characters actions make the original story of Oz make a little more sense. I would recommend this to anyone who has seen or read The Wizard of Oz, but perhaps not someone who loves it for its wholesome goodness.