Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be—until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda.
Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood—most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire.
March 27
The Vipers' Vow (Verona Falls University #6) by Marissa Farrar and S.R. Jones
They call me Venom, but they’re the ones who are toxic.They vow to make me theirs, and never let me go…but now something else has torn us apart.
Three men, each one broken in a different way. Each one trying to make up for that pain by hurting me, except this time, I’m fighting back.
Their obsession should have felt so wrong; dark and depraved, but it felt like the sun on my skin. That’s because I’m broken too, and all our misshaped parts somehow make a whole.
It went too far though; the games, the desire, the lies … and now we’re all in danger.
The past is catching up with us fast, and, as old foes reappear, we must fight for our very lives, never mind our happily ever after.
*Don’t miss the concluding, heart-racing book of the dark, college romance, Vipers trilogy!
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March 28
Even that might be tolerable if he didn't always choose the seat right beside me. But he won't move, and neither will I. So now we're stuck. Side by side for flight after flight.
After flight.
So what if he's kind of attractive? And softer than he pretends? His life is in Boston, and mine is not. His career is his priority, and the happy, secure world I've worked hard to build for myself in Savannah is mine.
So he's still the obnoxious airplane guy to me, and no matter how often our paths might cross, that's all he can ever be.
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