New York Times bestseller Gregory Maguire—who re-imagined the land of Oz and all its fabled inhabitants in his monumental series, The Wicked Years—brings us The Next Queen of Heaven, a wildly farcical and gloriously imaginative tall tale of faith, Catholic dogma, lust, and questionable miracles on the eve of Y2K. The very bizarre and hilarious goings on in the eccentric town of Thebes make for a delightfully mad reading experience—as The Next Queen of Heaven shows off the acclaimed author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Mirror Mirror in a brilliant new heavenly light.
My thoughts
This book has been at my house for ages. I borrowed it from my local Library years ago (2014) and have just kept renewing it time and time and time again. I am not sure what drew me to it originally, but something did. I have started it a few times before (2017 was one attempt), but never got so far however this time I have decided that I am reading it until I finish it.
This is an odd book to review and is in no way like Gregory Maguires other reads in so much as they are loosely based on or around fairy tales. This one is heavily based around the Catholic religion, set in a small town in America it's quite character driven and is a book that you can escape into and lose yourself completely. The reader isn't always completely sure what is happening or that is how I felt about it at times. I was lost in it completely and it gave me some much needed escapism at a time when it was much appreciated.
It's set at a time in history when mankind had a lot to deal with, no one was sure how the World was going to cope with the turn of the Century and the start of a new Millennium, whether people would carry on as normal or whether they would begin to question what the meaning of things were, etc. People were dealing with the illness that was causing problems for a number of the World's population and a lot of people were dying from. AIDS was a disease that was problematic for us and that we were having to come to terms with, it instilled a lot of fear into people as they were frightened of catching it.
To find out what I mean about it being an odd book to review, then why not look it up for yourself and grab a copy to see what I am on about.
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