Nina Foster answers “So, why does everyone hate this book? I...”

abby asked this question about Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1):

So, why does everyone hate this book? I think it is amazing so far and I am prepared to read the other 3 books on the quartet. So, what, it is nearly nothing like the musical we know and love. But that does not make this book bad.

Nina Foster I don't remember children exposing their genitals in the book, and I read the whole thing about a month ago. I also don't remember them pinching their…moreI don't remember children exposing their genitals in the book, and I read the whole thing about a month ago. I also don't remember them pinching their mother's nipples. I don't remember children at all actually, except for Elphaba and how her family had a hard time with the fact that she was green, and Fiyero's pre-teens, but I don't remember them doing those things. Naturally when one wants to know the gender of a newborn the first place they look is the genitals, which I recall, but throughout the book any mention of sex was light and brief and obviously not impressionable enough for me to remember, and what I do remember did not involve children. (less)

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Lauren The author described the breasts of a 10-year-old at least once, but it could have been more. He described a child (not a baby) grabbing their mother' ...more
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