Beldryn
I don't even know what this book was trying to do. To call this a story might be an exaggeration. The title of this book is The Road to Oz, and that's to a T what is was. For about 220 pages it was literally the characters walking on the road to Oz. Dorothy starts out the story, and by and by she picks up random characters. Do these characters add anything? No, they do not. You could take out all characters and the end result would have been the same. The only useful character was summoned as a Deux ex Machina, he conveniently built them a sandboat so they could safely cross into the land of Oz, and then left. Mind you, this is the only challenge they faced. Good thing they didn't even need to use an ounce of brainpower to solve this situation!
About halfway it seemed that the author suddenly realised he needed some semblance of plot, so he went with a birthday party. During said birthday party, it was a stream of supposedly famous characters from Oz entering, with the addition of Santa Claus. No, I am not making this up.
They had a grand party and the wizard sent everyone home in soap bubbles reinforced with glue because that's how we roll here.
At one point there was a stream of sexual innuendos, that was really strange. There was also a surprising amount of near-horror. And also they kept bashing on stupid people, they taught the important lesson of exclusion to children and of course they fat shamed Santa Claus.
I don't even know what this book was trying to do. To call this a story might be an exaggeration. The title of this book is The Road to Oz, and that's to a T what is was. For about 220 pages it was literally the characters walking on the road to Oz. Dorothy starts out the story, and by and by she picks up random characters. Do these characters add anything? No, they do not. You could take out all characters and the end result would have been the same. The only useful character was summoned as a Deux ex Machina, he conveniently built them a sandboat so they could safely cross into the land of Oz, and then left. Mind you, this is the only challenge they faced. Good thing they didn't even need to use an ounce of brainpower to solve this situation!
About halfway it seemed that the author suddenly realised he needed some semblance of plot, so he went with a birthday party. During said birthday party, it was a stream of supposedly famous characters from Oz entering, with the addition of Santa Claus. No, I am not making this up.
They had a grand party and the wizard sent everyone home in soap bubbles reinforced with glue because that's how we roll here.
At one point there was a stream of sexual innuendos, that was really strange. There was also a surprising amount of near-horror. And also they kept bashing on stupid people, they taught the important lesson of exclusion to children and of course they fat shamed Santa Claus.