
The Brides of Maracoor
A Novel (Another Day, Book 1)
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Narrated by:
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Debra Wise
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Gregory Maguire
The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy best-selling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.
Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.
But “out of Oz” isn’t “gone for good.” Maguire’s new series, Another Day, is here, 25 years after Wicked first flew into our lives.
Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices.
As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island’s civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and well-being of an entire nation. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill?
The trilogy Another Day will follow this green-skinned girl from the island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family and her lover, back to Oz, which — in its beauty, suffering, mystery, injustice, and possibility — reminds us all too clearly of the troubled yet sacred terrain of our own lives.
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Incredible performance by John McDonough.
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Slooooowwww
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couldn't stop
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please finish the story soon
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Amazing Turnaround!
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Back to oz
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Not an Oz book
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The performance is ok. It is a pretty huge tonal shift from the narration of John McDonough, which was very eccentric and theatrical. In contrast, this new narrator sounds very somber and subdued. This may be intentional as the setting and culture for this book is different, but I can't quite tell.
I quite enjoyed the new setting. I feel like we barely scratched the surface of the culture and history of this mysterious new world Rain finds herself in. As for the plot of the story, it felt much more contained than the Oz books. It is a good deal shorter as well. This isn't necessarily a bad thing though. If there is one criticism I had for Out of Oz, it's that despite the book being 30 hours long I felt as if there were so many bits of detail and characterization that were lost by the hugeness of the story being crammed into one book. So I'm fine with this story being much more contained. This book still introduces many new characters and lore to enjoy.
Overall, I am so happy to be able to peek into Rain's world again. I look forward to the next novel in this series.
It's not even my birthday!
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Wonderful
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A Great Beginning to an Iconic End
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