One of the upcoming books that has been on my radar is Danielle Paige’s debut novel Dorothy Must Die. This is set in the world of L Frank Baum’s Oz in which a modern day Kansas teen is taken to Oz and tasked with bringing down the current despotic tyrant, our old friend Dorothy Gale. The concept sounded intriguing and I have heard some excited buzz around this. So you can imagine I was excited when I discovered that there is a prequel out called No Place Like Oz which tells the story of how plucky Kansas girl Dorothy became a tyrant. At 132 pages it’s a pretty decent length for a novella. The electronic copy also includes a snippet from Dorothy Must Die. I loved No Place Like Oz and it’s really whetted my appetite for Dorothy Must Die. It is based on the L Frank Baum stories rather than the 1939 Judy Garland movie – it mentions the Silver Slippers rather than the movie’s ruby ones (apparently it was felt red made a stronger visual punch than silver) and references characters such as the China Girl and Saw-horse who only appear in the books. Some reviewers have been…