The Wicked Will Rise

“For anyone who likes a good story turned on its head, Dorothy Must Die is a must-read.” — Huffington Post “Debut novelist Danielle Paige fantastically flips the fantasy script on the wonderful land of Oz. Paige doesn’t reinvent the wheel but instead takes a world that most of pop culture has been raised on and builds from it her own modern mythology. Gone are the days of rainbows, Lollipop Guilds and pretty much anything to sing about in a major key. For those willing to go on a quest with a heroine more attuned to our times than the Dust Bowl era, there’s no place like it.” — USA Today “Gone are the days of rainbows, Lollipop Guilds and pretty much anything to sing about in a major key. For those willing to go on a quest with a heroine more attuned to our times than the Dust Bowl era, there’s no place like it.” — USA Today “Paige delivers a solid, intense, and strange narrative that draws deeply on its source material.” — Publishers Weekly PRAISE FOR DOROTHY MUST DIE: “Readers of Baum’s books will take special delight in seeing new twists on the old characters, and they will greet the surprise climactic turnabout with the smugness of insiders.” — Kirkus Reviews “Dorothy Must Die is kind of the ultimate in girl-powered literature. You’ve got empowered heroines, sure, but Paige also conjures a formidable villainess in Dorothy and some manipulative lady revolutionaries. Here, women and girls are allowed to be anything. This is a step beyond the one woman up front: Katniss flanked by her boyfriends and a bunch of men who want to take her down. This really is a woman’s world.” — Nerdist.com “A cinematic work that Oz purists will balk at but reluctant readers will devour.” — School Library Journal “This sequel doesn’t lose its momentum one bit…you’ll be begging for book three.” — PopCrush.com's "Best YA Books of 2015 (So Far!)" “Paige has embellished upon the original Wizard of Oz story to create a completely new, even more bizarre Oz and cast of characters. Her world building is fascinating.” — Booklist “Paige’s world building is intriguing and effectively augments the original world created by L. Frank Baum.” — ALA Booklist “Dorothy Must Die is kind of the ultimate in girl-powered literature. You’ve got empowered heroines, sure, but Paige also conjures a formidable villainess in Dorothy and some manipulative lady revolutionaries. Here, women and girls are allowed to be anything. This really is a woman’s world.” — Nerdist.com “Debut author Paige doesn’t hold back in this fast-paced action novel. Give this cinematic upper-YA novel to fans of A. G. Howard’s Splintered, Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars, and TV shows such as Once Upon a Time and Grimm.” — School Library Journal “Paige is creating a rather brilliantly twisted version of the familiar world of Oz, continuing to turn references from the original works on their heads, subverting any notions of good and evil, and establishing a place of power-hungry players and shifting alliances that will have readers wondering whom they can trust.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books “Paige is creating a rather brilliantly twisted version of the familiar world of Oz.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books “The Wizard of Oz as you’ve never seen it.” — Teen Vogue “L. Frank Baum would be proud because Danielle Paige really makes Oz — even a modern, dystopian version of it — her own in the enjoyable sequel to Dorothy Must Die.” — USA Today