Dorothy Must Die Stories Volume 2 audiobook

Oh this was wonderful! I loved traveling back to this alternate Oz! I can't wait for Yellow Brick War to come out next month.Heart of Tin: 5/5Oh! Poor Tin! I feel so bad for him. Even if I hadn't read the rest of the series, I would have known Dorothy doesn't love Tin. His want for her is pathetic, and if it was towards me I would be severely annoyed, but reading it from his POV breaks your heart. Tin deserved love. Notice the past tense. Obviously, once he let Scare and Glinda take over his heart, he was lost. But before that, he deserved better.The Straw King: 5/5I love that Scare and Lion's stories use stories from the original Oz plot. It was amazing. This Jinjur was a lot scarier that the one from Baum's story though. Hearing Scare's internal monologue is scary. I feel so bad for him at times, but other times, I want to run away from him! Paige did a wonderful job with this one!Ruler of the Beasts: 5/5This one started a little slow for me, but when it picked up, man, did it pick up! Again, it uses some of Baum's original story line, but it is much more fearful. The Nome King in Baum's story is laughable, in Paige's, he is the stuff that nightmares are made of. And Glinda is the Devil reincarnate! Lion is the one I feel the sorriest for.Now I need to go watch The Wizard of Oz where everything ends all happy.

This is post originally on Vivian's Book Pavilion So now…I have to wait till February to get the latest Dorothy Must Die series…can someone give me The End of Oz…like RIGHT NOW??? I CAN’T WAIT ANY LONGER TO READ THE FINAL!!!!!! Yes, I’m crazy, again. But I must say, also I gave this book 3 stars, I think it’s better than the first volume of Dorothy Must Die Stories. I like Ozma, either she is crazy little fairy or an all-powerful queen. And…except from Tin, I really like Ruler of King and The Straw King stories. By the way, Heart of Tin, The Straw King, and Ruler of King are the short stories in this volume. These are all stories happened before Amy Gunn comes to Oz, and how those characters were been corrupt by the evil magic of Oz. However…someone was truly evil, always and always. (Well? I never like pink…so I’m not so fond of that character. Yet…I do like Strawberry Sundae.) Heart of Tin Ah! I hate lovesick guy. No, they’re all idiot. And no, I don’t think I’ll like to have a boyfriend to make me a lovesick idiot…perhaps…fictional boyfriends.

“You love the fight more than you love what you are fighting for.” I really like how this novellas adds some world building to this series, as well as background for both the characters and the plotline. It's slowling creating the back story for the main series and giving the readers insight in how Oz turned into what we see in the first Dorothy Must Die book. My favorite was the Lion's story - how he used his courage, how loyal and caring he is with his friend, how he saw past Glinda's artifices and his friendship with Ozma made him a very relatable, easy to like and compelling character. I felt sorry for the Tin Man and his unrequireted love for Dorothy and how people used that to control him, but his novella didn't add much to everything ...unlike Scarecrow's story, although his was my least favorite story, mainly because Scare was already quite corrupted and kind of mean and egoistical before the big turning point. Still, in his novella we finally know how Ozma came to the throne, where she was before and who got her back, as well as one of the possible reasons for her fallout with Scare and Glinda.Ozma is possibly one of my favorite characters in all this, she's sweet and kind, but smart and commanding when needed be, but also compassionate and mysterious. I really want to get to her novella, but I think the final set will be best read if after the second main novel. Which I'm anxious to dive into, so off to Oz again I go!

Three novellas in this collection --backstory for Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion. One of my quibbles with this series--and ironically, what also makes it captivating--is the extremes it takes. The gift of brains, heart, and courage become intensely corrupted and aren't really "gifts" at all, but fucked up burdens foisted on them by an equally awful Wizard. Scarecrow goes from ineffective animated sack of straw > Dorothy's loyal friend > gruesome Mengele-like monster doing experiments on tied down Winkies, the Tin Man becomes a murderous "nice guy" incel trying to prove his love for Dorothy in building her an army, and the Cowardly Lion feeds off of other creatures' fear and loves nothing better than devouring Munchkins. We never really see the true "before" in these books, except maybe the Cowardly Lion who has the best transition from good to evil out of the three. There is a brief flashback in one of the books to Dorothy's pre-Oz diary, we see the hardscrabble shitty life in Kansas and the mean bullies she deals with at school along with the crushing poverty / sad sack Em & Henry. Which is too bad--I think these books would have been a LOT stronger if there were more hints to what happened before the magic tainted Dorothy and the gang, rather than them being SUPER EVIL, which is what all these focus on. It might have made the stakes a bit bigger when Amy or the others use magic or just a sadness in the corruption of power (I mean at one point Dorothy WAS good--the Munchkins didn't build that statue for her for no reason.)So a bit shallow and these novellas sort of address that aspect of it, but as novellas never really go to the places I want them to--but that's okay. We see in these chapters how Scarecrow is jealous and annoyed at being usurped (even though he wasn't a great ruler), how the Tin Man sold out all the Winkies, and my favorite of the trio, the Cowardly Lion's bonding with Ozma and him falling under Glinda's influence.

** spoiler alert ** These stories are based in the land of Oz before the series, Dorothy Must Die, takes place. I really enjoyed reading the story of the story and how it came to be that Dorothy comes back to Oz as it’s ruler. Danielle Paige has a creative way of writing each story from a different character’s perspective. There are three short stories, each is told from the perspective of one of Dorothy’s three companions. This contributes to great character development and a unique twist to the original story. It’s fun to read to piece the puzzles together! Spoiler alert just to clarify, The series Dorothy Must Die takes place after the classic story we all know and the Volume stories take place in between the classic and the new series.

4.5Reseña completa en Books FDDorothy Must Die: Stories Vol. 2 logramos conocer un poco más al trío que acompañó a Dorothy: Hombre de Hojalata, el Espantapajaras y al León, aunque uno de ellos me desesperó por su buen corazón, otro fue un cobarde que solo quería leer y otro fue más “humanizado” y creó algo lindo aunque al final la sombra de la duda lo llena. Con los dos primeros pudimos ver esa transición de buenos a malos, y con el León me ha faltado, es que si me ha gustado conocer estas historias antes de detectarlos en las novelas principales. Esta segunda recopilación me gustó un poco más que la primera.

Two scary and one dark story here. I thought these were so much better than the first three. I felt bad for Tin for about 30 pages and then was tired of his mooning on and on about Dorothy and then wanted to run from this crazy psycho. I never felt sorry for Scare, though I liked him for a little tiny bit. And then he got creepy. He became a evil Frankenstein, and you can see the beginning of it in Straw King, and the further in Heart Of Tin. Lion's story was really good, and a good break from the darkness of the others. I love how these three relate to Dorothy, Ozma and Glinda. Lion was the innocent one, in my opinion. I also found it interesting how he was the one who was free of his gift, unlike Tin and Scare who became slaves of theirs. Looking forward to volume 3 now.

All three of the novellas in this book are well writing and well thought out. They each tell a different story relating to three of the main characters, tin, scare and lion. These stories show how they came to be the way they are in the main story line as well as what happened before Dorothy arrived in Oz. A true must read for a fan of the series!

I loved this book. The only thing was it took just a little bit to get into it but it was really interesting and I loved all three stories. I really like the main characters that were chosen for it.

Actually 3.5 starsThese three Dorothy Must Die prequels revolve around Dorothy's original traveling companions -- the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. While it's interesting to see how they got from their post-movie selves to the evil versions we see in Dorothy Must Die, some of the themes are beginning to become repetitive. (view spoiler)[Glinda is evil, and is making everyone evil, and they either can't see it, or can't do anything about it if they do. (hide spoiler)]

Review in my Wrap Up Vloghttps://youtu.be/mAkPSjN_8eU

Another good book filled with three short stories! This one involved the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Lion. The stories were quite interesting and I learned things that I didn't know before. In the Tin Man's story, my god.. There was wayyyy to much love going on there. It actually got a little annoying at times. Either confess your love to Dorothy or shut up! That literally was what I was thinking. So anyways in his story you find out how much he is obsessed with Dorthoy and how he tries to confess to her his feelings when she comes back to Oz. He gets jealous of anyone that gets close to her too. But when it comes down to it, he will do anything for her. He would even kill for her if that's what she wanted him to do. Now the Scarecrows story goes way back to when Dorothy left Oz and he became the King of the Emerald City. He wasn't King for long and things happened.. You also learn exactly how Ozma became the ruler of Oz. I was a little surprised about that. Then there's the Lion. He is the ruler of the beasts in the forest, but he soon becomes bored with it. Glinda appeared and offers him a quest. He must go to the Emerald City and be Ozma's protector and try to find a ruby necklace. You also learn how Ozma faced the Knome King and made him agree to stay out of Oz and you learn at the end why Ozma has to imprison Glinda although I already knew that was coming. She still got her hands on the necklace though, I believe that's what she uses to make Dorothy's shoes too, to bring her back to Oz! It all makes sense now! Another good novel with more details of the characters history!! Can't wait to read the last story novel, I bet its gonna be just as good!