The first three are great, then Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz came along and had to ruin everything. He pretty much throws all continuity out the window at that point and it slowly turns into this nightmare world where everyone is stuck with Ozma, Dorothy and Glinda controlling everything. I read all 14 Baum books last year (which doing them all at once was probably a dumb idea) because I wanted to see what they were all about after reading The Wicked Years (which I loved) and I kind of hated most of them. Dorothy turned into one of my least favorite book characters by the end of it haha. But that's just me glad to know other people are reading them because like I said I think the first three are really great