<blockquote><b><i>“You love the fight more than you love what you are fighting for.”</i></b></blockquote> I really like how this novellas adds some world building to this series, as well as background for both the characters and the plotline. It's slowling creating the back story for the main series and giving the readers insight in how Oz turned into what we see in the first Dorothy Must Die book. My favorite was the Lion's story - how he used his courage, how loyal and caring he is with his friend, how he saw past Glinda's artifices and his friendship with Ozma made him a very relatable, easy to like and compelling character. I felt sorry for the Tin Man and his unrequireted love for Dorothy and how people used that to control him, but his novella didn't add much to everything ...unlike Scarecrow's story, although his was my least favorite story, mainly because Scare was already quite corrupted and kind of mean and egoistical before the big turning point. Still, in his novella we finally know how Ozma came to the throne, where she was before and who got her back, as well as one of the possible reasons for her fallout with Scare and Glinda. Ozma is possibly one of my favorite characters in all this, she's sweet and kind, but smart and commanding when needed be, but also compassionate and mysterious. I really want to get to her novella, but I think the final set will be best read if after the second main novel. Which I'm anxious to dive into, so off to Oz again I go!