I've read a lot of terrible books, but this one possibly wins the distinction of being the worst book that I have ever read. It was awful.

An explanation....I liked Wicked and I have read all of Maguire's other books. Every time a new Maguire book came out, I read it and they seemed to progressively go downhill. I didn't expect Son of s Witch to be very good, but I wanted to give it a chance.

The only reason that this book was possibly written, is due to the success of the stage musical of Wicked. It is the only possible reason. This book served no real purpose and did not move the story forward in a meaningful way. Off the subject, I didn't care for the musical version of Wicked. It was a less than ideal adaptation and lackluster as far as musicals go. I don't understand why it has been so popular.

Something that really irritated me about this book was the over abundance of fantasy terms. Yes, I know that it's a fantasy book, but I couldn't help but feel that Maguire thought that he was being super clever with word play and naming things. It came across as pretentious and annoying. The writing was just bad. The characters were ridiculous and most of plot didn't have a point. A terrible, terrible book.

One more thing...the Thomas Jefferson quote at the end of the book really added to the pretentious factor. Blah!!!!