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The Brides of Maracoor
The Brides of Maracoor: A Novel | Gregory Maguire
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Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, 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, twenty-five 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 wellbeing 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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Addison_Reads
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Mehso-so

I was so excited when I saw that this new series followed Rain, the granddaughter of Elphaba from Wicked. This first book didn't have a strong start though. 😕

Rain arrives on a island where the Seven Brides of Maracoor live. Maguire introduces a lot of characters at one time without much explanation. Rain has amnesia and is trying to figure out who she is and where she's from.

I'm hoping we learn more in Book 2.

#SeriesRead2022 @TheSpineView

TheSpineView Excellent 2y
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vlwelser
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Pickpick

This is a new Wicked series, following Elphaba's granddaughter Rain. Did we need this? I don't care. I'm totally hooked.

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
TheBookHippie The cover art! 😍 2y
vlwelser @TheBookHippie this author is on a different level. He turned up at a book reading/signing once with a flutist. When I asked him why he asked me whyever not? 2y
TheBookHippie @vlwelser OH my word he's one of us!! HA. How wonderful. 2y
vlwelser @TheBookHippie he absolutely is. 2y
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vlwelser
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#BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

This feels overly ambitious, as it does every month.

Totally hooked on this new Wicked series, btw.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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vlwelser
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This doesn't seem to have its dust jacket. Today's library hold pick up. Only one. Self control at its finest.

Suet624 That‘s so hard to do! 2y
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bibliobliss
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New in from a recent Goodreads giveaway. Book will be released in October.

#tbr #tbrpile #giveaways #freebooks #fiction #novels #paperbacks #arc

Tera66 Yay! I got one too! 3y
bibliobliss @Tera66 Awesome 😊 3y
BethM How was this? 3y
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