West of Wicked By Nikki St. Crowe

Rating: 5 stars

Adult - Spice: Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers

Genre: Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Romance

Tags: Magic, Fairy Tale, Fairy Tale Retelling, Wizard of Oz, Dark, Book Review

The Great and Terrible Land Book 1

Dorothy has been with Aunt Em & Uncle Henry since she was young. She feels like she owe’s them for taking care of her. When a sudden storm takes the house with her and Toto inside. Upon landing, she is confronted by a very angry witch who attacks her. While defending herself, she kills the Cardinal Witch of the East. Dorothy only wants to get back to Kansas and sets off on the Yellow Brick Road. But it is not as safe as she has been led to believe. Will she be able to get to the Wizard and safely back home?

This is the first book in the Great and Terrible Land. Dorothy is stubborn and has a one track mind to get home. She is learning quickly about this strange land she finds herself in. Rook is odd in that he seems to have no memories, and yet sometimes explains things clearly. The world is filled with magic, but it is even more dark than the original tale. Even so, the world is beautiful. I loved reading this book and look forward to reading the next book, East of Envy.

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Pages: 320

Read: Digital

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“No one is safe on the Yellow Brick Road.

Dorothy Gale doesn’t know where she came from. At the age of five, she was dropped on Em and Henry’s doorstep while a terrible storm rolled across the Kansas prairie. Now as an adult, Dorothy has made the most of her life on the farm. But when a cyclone tears through the night, ripping her, her dog, and the farmhouse away, Dorothy wakes to find herself far from home in the strange, cursed land of Oz.

Desperate to find her way back, Dorothy takes the advice of the Witch of the North and sets off on the yellow brick road to find a wizard…with a warning to avoid forest monsters, heartless mercenaries, and wicked witches. It isn’t long before Dorothy encounters the dark side of Oz, stumbling on a man beaten and bloody, tied to a pole in a cornfield. Not unlike the scarecrows on the Kansas farm.

With no memories, the mysterious stranger joins Dorothy. Rook is ridiculously handsome, endlessly charming, and somehow understands Dorothy in a way no one ever has. But when they cross paths with the infamous Tinman and his axe, Rook proves he may be hiding his own secrets.

Nothing and no one is what they seem in the cursed land of Oz…maybe even Dorothy herself.”