70 pages 2 hours read

Danielle Paige

Dorothy Must Die

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

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Chapters 19-21Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 19 Summary

The next day, Amy doesn’t do much better in her lessons. In her room, there’s a trunk of dresses with a note from Glamora instructing her to wear one, and a bat leads her to a magnificent ballroom with a floor made of glass that shows rushing water beneath. Glamora instructs Nox and Amy to dance. To Amy’s surprise, Nox takes the lesson seriously, and she breathes in his scent, which is “fresh and alive and full of magic” (185).

Asking why Amy thinks she’s too good for the witches, Nox drops details from her life in Kansas, referring to her as trailer trash just like Madison did. Anger erupts inside Amy, and suddenly she’s across the room from Nox, red bolts shooting from her hands. Nox rushes to touch her and brings them outside to the mountain beneath a night sky full of strange constellations.

Amy is still angry with her mother and feels betrayed by what the witches just did. They know all her secrets while she knows none of theirs. Nox tells her how he lost his entire village in a flood Glinda caused. He spent years scavenging to survive until

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