Jamie is a young boy with a happy family life in Indiana. He and his father open a chest that belonged to his great-grandfather, a magician, and join their local magicians chapter. He starts having weird, magical, green mist-filled dreams. After he says the spell he hears in one of them, he ends up in Oz because Ozma has summoned him there to be a friend of Dorothy.
Magician of Oz is written in the third person and it’s incredibly confusing. The author calls different characters using different points of reference, to the point where it seems like there are ten characters rather than three. There is almost no dialogue. Once or twice the author enclosed descriptions of a character’s thoughts in quotation marks, further confusing the entire situation.
There was some hope that once the main character, Jamie, got to Oz, the story would pick up. Unfortunately, the addition of more characters only makes the earlier writing problems more apparent.
Reviewed by Alexa Hamilton