So first off I think Baum being either tired of writing or low on ideas was really evident here. Oogaboo? Seriously? Why not Gobelty Gook? 💁‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Spoilers beyond this point 👉 

I try to overlook or find alternative reasons for continuity issues but some you just can't imagine your way out of. 
Glinda all of a sudden resides in the North in spite of being the Good Witch of the South. The Shaggy Man and Polychrome act like they've never met before. (Star Wars Droid flashbacks...What do you mean you don't know who they are Ben!?) The Love Magnet has to be seen now? Also why, why change the Nome King's name? Ozma told him his name *after* he drank the Oblivion Water! Maybe we can write off Ozma not using the Magic Belt as her "training" the Wizard, but that's not how it reads at all. 

And we finally get the answer to why Toto doesn't talk. I honestly preferred him not talking. It seems like a much more special bond when he understands everything she says and by the wag of his tail she understands him perfectly...

Overall the story was fine but a little more forgettable than the rest. I liked the quest to find the Shaggy Man's brother, but the ending where he may not be allowed to live in Oz was a really terrible plot point from someone so "wise" and kind as Ozma. This one was really lacking the charm and whit the others have given us in abundance.

Quotable Quotations 🗣 📢 

"One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition."

"If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong."

“One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself."

Quox Quietly Quits

"I will have my nomes throw him out.” 
“Then please throw him as hard as you can.”

"I s’pose she’ll be a good deal happier with her sisters in the sky palaces.” 
“To be sure,” returned Shaggy, nodding gravely. “It’s her home, you know, and those poor wanderers who, like ourselves, have no home, can realize what that means to her.”

The same spell has affected Toto, I assure you; but he’s a wise little dog and while he knows everything that is said to him he prefers not to talk.” 
“Goodness me!” exclaimed Dorothy. “I never s’pected Toto was fooling me all this time.”
“Just one word, Toto — and then you may run away.” 
He looked at her steadily a moment. 
“All right. Here I go!” he said, and darted away as swift as an arrow.