Title: Wonder Woman: WarbringerSeries: DC Icons #1
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published Date: August 28th 2017
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, YA
Page Count:376
Format: Hardcover
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
Daughter of immortals.
Princess Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mortal. Diana will soon learn that she has rescued no ordinary girl, and that with this single brave act, she may have doomed the world.
Daughter of death.
Alia Keralis just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. She doesn’t know she is being hunted by people who think her very existence could spark a world war. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued by a mysterious girl of extraordinary strength and forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer—a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.
Together.
Two girls will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. Tested beyond the bounds of their abilities, Diana and Alia must find a way to unleash hidden strengths and forge an unlikely alliance. Because if they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war.
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My Review:
Thank you to Blogging for books for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Leigh Bardugo has done it again. I loved her Shadow and Bone Trilogy and I have now loved Wonder Woman!
If you've seen the movie just forget almost everything about it when it comes to this book. Well maybe besides how good Gal Gadot is an amazing Wonder Woman. Okay, Let's get to the actual book now.
Princess Diana is the underdog on the Island she's the Queens daughter and because she hasn't really proven herself like everyone else she feels like she really doesn't fit in. When an accident happens and she hears a human victim shouting for help she goes and helps, but this makes something bad happen on the island and they have to leave immediately which also leads to Diana learning that Alia happens to bring anger and fighting everywhere she goes and that she needs to take Alia to a certain place to stop the human world from going to War.
Thus begins the adventure and a whole cast of characters that bring a lot of feelings in. First, we have Jason who is Alia's brother and is full of secrets and control issues. Then we have Theo who is Jason's best friend and his dad is Jason and Alia's Godfather. Lastly and my most favorite side Character Nim, who is into fashion, Alia's best friend and is just amazing throughout the whole book.
Overall I could not get enough of this book and I am so so glad I read it. I don't know much about Greek Mythology (It's something I want to learn about, but it's also daunting to me, if you have any recommendations please tell me them.) so I did have to stop a few times and look things up just to know more about the story (you don't have to do this I just wanted to learn more while reading). The cross between mythology and the present day world worked wonderfully together and it still all made sense and wasn't confusing at all. I loved how Diana is still very no-nonsense and shuts everyone down who thinks she can't do something. (ex: Jason who is just wow) She is such a good influence on Alia and really helps her through this crazy journey and she also helps out the other side characters get confident as well. This book was just so heartwarming to me and I can't wait to continue to read the DC Icon's series.
I'm really hoping that Wonder Woman's story continues on in another book or she at least makes an appearance in the rest of the companion series.
Thank you to Blogging for books for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
“I am done being careful. I am done being quiet. Let them see me angry. Let them hear me wail at the top of my lungs.”
Leigh Bardugo has done it again. I loved her Shadow and Bone Trilogy and I have now loved Wonder Woman!
If you've seen the movie just forget almost everything about it when it comes to this book. Well maybe besides how good Gal Gadot is an amazing Wonder Woman. Okay, Let's get to the actual book now.
Princess Diana is the underdog on the Island she's the Queens daughter and because she hasn't really proven herself like everyone else she feels like she really doesn't fit in. When an accident happens and she hears a human victim shouting for help she goes and helps, but this makes something bad happen on the island and they have to leave immediately which also leads to Diana learning that Alia happens to bring anger and fighting everywhere she goes and that she needs to take Alia to a certain place to stop the human world from going to War.
Thus begins the adventure and a whole cast of characters that bring a lot of feelings in. First, we have Jason who is Alia's brother and is full of secrets and control issues. Then we have Theo who is Jason's best friend and his dad is Jason and Alia's Godfather. Lastly and my most favorite side Character Nim, who is into fashion, Alia's best friend and is just amazing throughout the whole book.
Overall I could not get enough of this book and I am so so glad I read it. I don't know much about Greek Mythology (It's something I want to learn about, but it's also daunting to me, if you have any recommendations please tell me them.) so I did have to stop a few times and look things up just to know more about the story (you don't have to do this I just wanted to learn more while reading). The cross between mythology and the present day world worked wonderfully together and it still all made sense and wasn't confusing at all. I loved how Diana is still very no-nonsense and shuts everyone down who thinks she can't do something. (ex: Jason who is just wow) She is such a good influence on Alia and really helps her through this crazy journey and she also helps out the other side characters get confident as well. This book was just so heartwarming to me and I can't wait to continue to read the DC Icon's series.
I'm really hoping that Wonder Woman's story continues on in another book or she at least makes an appearance in the rest of the companion series.
I agree about needing to forget the film, because I got super confused trying to match the timelines up, haha. It was good, though, I just muddled myself.
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