Wendy SpinaleOzland (The Everland Trilogy, Book 3) (3)

my daughter is obsessed and couldn't wait 2 days to get a hard copy :-)

I love the adventure in this series. It is great how each book in the series changes perspective. The ending of this book is my favorite.

These books are so well written and the description pulls the reader right into every scene. I love the new perspective of old stories!

lol forward to reading this as part of the series which I enjoy very much.

13 year old girl could not stop reading

My daughter is reading this series and she absolutely loves it.

Arrived on time and is in very good condition.

I felt the same way about this one as I did about the other two. It’s fine, but not really what I was hoping for from a steampunk post-apocalyptic retelling of some beloved children’s stories.I like that we got Doc’s perspective in this book since he was one of the characters I enjoyed over the series. I also liked Gail and Ginger and their friendship over the course of the novel. I went into this hoping it wasn’t going to be Dorothy going on a journey with Scarecrow and falling in love with him, like the last two. So I’m glad Spinale mixed it up with two platonic girlfriends rescuing King Osbourne.Ozland still keeps some of that dark, weird stuff from Umberland and I still find it really fun to read in its bizarreness. Don’t expect any friendly Scarecrows or Tin Mans or Cowardly Lions.The characters finally felt like they grew into their own things in this one, but I think it’s really weird that we’ll spend an entire novel developing and getting to know Gwen or Alyssa and then they’re both barely in this one. Gwen is unconscious and off-stage and Alyssa has maybe five lines in this book. So if you really enjoyed those two characters, you’re out of luck. There’s also quite a bit of expository dialogue and telling rather than showing, especially in the first half.The ending, involving Dorothy and Pete, was also a big misstep for me. It made me angry and I felt it was unfaithful to how characters had been set up over the course of the series. It was also resolved with two lines of exposition in the epilogue so I don’t know what the point was. Also, everyone’s pretty much paired up at the end.Overall, I still feel like this series didn’t quite work for me as an adult, but I would have loved it as 13 or 14 year old, so I still recommend it for that age range. Ozland is on par with the other books in the series, but the series as a whole doesn’t live up to the potential of the premise.

Ozland is totally one of the best books I have ever read. There is so much adventure and excitement, and you never really know what's going to happen. I think this book is great for people who enjoy adventure stories , but before reading Ozland, you should read the first two books in the series, Everland and Umberland.

tout est bien