Thompson’s sixth Oz book is showing her settling into a pattern, and repeating some plot points from her previous books, but also creating interesting new characters and unseen corners in Oz and nearby Ev. The Pasha of Rash is ruler of one such Ev kingdom, a nasty and irritable ruler who keeps throwing his subjects into jail for hardly any reason. His Chief Scribe, Ippty is just as nasty, and they come up with a plan to get rid of all their prisoners. They will bring the Hungry Tiger of Oz to their jail, lock him up, and force him to eat the other prisoners. They succeed in getting him there, but he won’t cooperate.

Meanwhile, Betsy Bobbin is on her own adventure, and soon arrives in Rash too, with a new friend, the Vegetable Man Carter Green. And while they all hope Ozma will find out where they are and save them, Ozma is on another adventure in the upper atmosphere with a sky man, Atmos, who has carried her up there. And of course, in Ev one is soon likely to run into the Nomes and their king, who has his own ideas.

Reasonably fun to reread, not one of Thompson’s best, but entertaining.

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