Revenge is best served at the end of a drama, when we readers have been so emotionally charged, we need that epic battle scene. Which will win over? At the same time, we follow their quest to visit the gnomes and to beat the new wicked witch who's brought a dark cloud over Oz. When they come back together, there is fury and lust. Both remembered in the past, but they were tortured and harassed to the point a lot drove them apart. While a big piece of this collection is fantasy like the original story, we have the introduction of the fae world, which includes more than I expected (in a good way).Ĭrow focuses on finding Reva they are married but through trickery, they've forgotten who they are.

We only know some of those pieces because the rest will be revealed in Ozma, the last novel in this series. The story is ripe with history of who betrayed whom, which lovers were torn apart, and why the Wizard took over Oz. The imagination of these two authors is brilliant, and I can't imagine what they considered but chose not to include. If you haven't read the previous books in this series, I won't spoil the connections, but there is more going on behind the scenes with Lion, Dorothy, the Tin Man, Glinda, and the Wicked Witches we thought we knew. one with sexual appetites, memory loss, and alarming alliances.Ĭrow focuses on the relationship between our lovable scarecrow and his former (or maybe not so former) wife and their long-lost daughter. Luckily, Robinson and Duell borrow elements from these books and create a very different playground. Imagine there were more complex histories than what we all knew in Wizard of Oz, and if you never read the other pieces in the traditional early 20th century collection, you missed out. In 2020, I read the previous two novels and the intro short story in this fantasy re-telling of a tale we all loved as children (and many of us still do as adults). Crow is the second full-length book in the Faeries of Oz series written by Candace Robinson and Amber R.

Crow by Candace Robinson