What a fun book! I love all of L. Frank Baum’s work and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, so when I found out about Amethyst, I had to acquire it. The descriptions are vivid and the story of a stranger landing in the Emerald City via balloon lines beautifully with the Oz mythos. Mombi, Witch of the North, is a great central character and I dare say author Nicholas Serrano breathed more life into her than Baum.