So, in the light of all this, why as many as three stars? Well, despite its downsides, this isn't a bad little adventure story up until the point the Oz elements are introduced. Just two chapters into the book I could have cheerfully shot him in the face. He makes Jar Jar Binks look like Gandalf by comparison.
He is, hands down, the single most annoying character I've ever encountered in a work of fiction. The other reason I disliked this book is the titular Rinkitink. There's no connection to Oz at all until the last couple of chapters when the Nome King is shoehorned in as an additional threat (a somewhat random 'end level boss' for those of you familiar with a certain type of video game) and then Dorothy, the Wizard and Glinda are brought in as an even more random deus ex machina to top things off. This is my least favourite Oz book so far and part of the reason for that is because it blatantly wasn't intended to be an Oz book.
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