The Wicked Will Rise

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The Wicked Will Rise
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Author Danielle Paige
Cover artistRay Shappell
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDorothy Must Die
GenreFantasy
Published2015, HarperCollins
Media typeprint, e-book, audiobook
Pages293 pages
ISBN 978-0-06-228070-1
Preceded by Dorothy Must Die  
Followed byYellow Brick War 

The Wicked Will Rise is a young adult novel by Danielle Paige, and the sequel to the 2014 book Dorothy Must Die. It was published by HarperCollins on March 30, 2015. It continues the story of high school girl Amy Gumm in her mission to assassinate Dorothy Gale, who has become twisted and evil. [1]

Contents

The book was a best-seller for HarperCollins, who planned a further series of four novels and nine novellas. [2]

Plot

Amy Gumm continues her crusade against Dorothy Gale and Glinda after a failed assassination attempt. After escaping from the burning Emerald City, the flying monkeys Ollie and Maude use their new paper wings in attempt to carry Princess Ozma and Amy to safety, but they are attacked and their wings are destroyed. Amy uses magic to allow them to land safely. They find the Lion, Amy takes his tail, the source of his courage. The Lion is reduced to cowardice, and Amy spares him.

They encounter wingless monkeys who take the group to the Queendom of the Wingless Ones. Amy meets Queen Lulu, the former guardian to Princess Ozma, who agrees to allow them to stay, but makes it clear that she will not get involved in the war. During the night, Amy meets Pete again and learns that he was unintentionally created by Mombi when she disguised young Ozma as a boy named Tippetarius. Knowing his true identity, she agrees to help him.

Mombi arrives and challenges Queen Lulu, with Amy as the defense. She is able to convince the Queen to allow Mombi to stay. Mombi requests that Amy seeks out Polychrome to assist them in helping the Order slay Dorothy. Amy and Ozma leave the Queendom of the Wingless Ones to find her and are given a gift from Queen Lulu that she stole from Glinda. When the gift backfires and Glinda unexpectedly appears, Amy tries to fight her, but it is revealed that Glinda is only a projection.

Continuing their journey, they arrive in the Land of the Lost and reunite with Nox. They meet a man named Bright who takes the group to Polychrome at the Rainbow Falls. Polychrome offers to fix Ozma, but reveals that the process will kill Pete. Afraid, Pete knocks Amy out and escapes. When Amy awakes, Polychrome’s home is on fire and under attack by Glinda and Dorothy. Pete disclosed their location to Glinda, believing that Glinda would help him. Polychrome, Amy, Nox and Bright lose the fight, and Glinda takes the Tin Man’s heart and the Lion’s tail and leaves with Pete. Polychrome is slain, and Bright flees. Beaten, Nox and Amy leave the Rainbow Falls. Enraged, Amy beats at a wall made out of the Road of Yellow Brick, transforming into a monster, which frightens her, but she is able to change herself back. With the wall destroyed, the group is able to see the other side of the Emerald Palace, where Queen Lulu is waiting. Having had a change of heart about fighting in the war, she tells the group her monkeys were able to capture Glinda, but Dorothy took Ozma into the Palace Maze. Amy and Nox follow them, encountering the Scarecrow who has already had his brains removed. Amy slays him, and continues following Dorothy, but Nox is left behind. When Amy reaches the middle of the maze, Dorothy threatens to destroy Kansas. She then sees the Wizard, who betrays her, taking control of Dorothy and Amy, revealing that Kansas and Oz are technically the same place, but in different dimensional spaces; Oz, in fact, draws some unidentified magic from Kansas that, in turn, leaves Kansas as a dried, un-magical place. The Wizard plans to merge the two, bringing Oz to the regular world, despite the potential chaos, and rule as its King. He is stopped when Pete suddenly separates from Ozma and attacks him, breaking his control of Amy and Dorothy. The Wizard’s plan foiled, Dorothy proceeds to brutally murder the Wizard before the tornado destroys the Maze, taking Dorothy and Amy back to Kansas, where the Witches of the Order are waiting.

Characters

Reception

Kirkus Reviews said, "Readers who liked Volume 1 will be perfectly happy waiting with this sequel for the series climax." [3]

Sequel

A sequel titled Yellow Brick War was released March 15, 2016.

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References

  1. Paige, Danielle. "The Wicked Will Rise (Dorothy Must Die #2)". Goodreads.
  2. Maughan, Shannon. "Moving On Up: 'Dorothy Must Die'". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  3. "The Wicked Will Rise". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 23 February 2024.