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Wonder Woman: Warbringer
by Leigh Bardugo
I really liked this book! I have recently been in love with Wonder Woman’s character especially after the DCEU’s rendition of Wonder Woman, staring Gal Gadot herself. After watching that movie I have like committed myself to Wonder Woman stuff and let me mention again I really liked the movie. So I went into this book with great expectations and boy, did it meet & surpass them. I never really expected it to disappoint, how could Leigh Bardugo writing Wonder Woman a DC character whom I already love, go wrong?
The premise of this entire series is interesting, the people at DC are pushing into the YA sphere with the use of popular YA authors to write about DC characters - this is something Marvel (the other big comic book giant) did not do. Honestly this was a great and bright move, allowing even more people to come to love and understand these characters.
This book is set in present day world whereby we get to see Diana as a fish out of water yet again. This does mean that it is apart from anything that is in the media right now (like the DCEU) and a whole new world on it’s own. This book has a lot of representation (surprisingly this does make or break books for people, but yes there is a large diverse cast of characters in this novel).
The writing in this book is great, I mean coming from Leigh Bardugo I was pretty surprised because I did not leave the Grisha Trilogy thinking I would read her other work, but now I am actually interested to read her Six of Crows Duology.
Leigh Bardugo was so good at writing dialogue, it felt like the characters really came to life and distinguished themselves - the banter between them was great.
The mythos and plot behind Warbringer was really interesting because this felt like a original kind of plot to me - I haven’t seen something like this before and it was definitely refreshing to read.
I am interested to read the rest of the books in the DC Icons universe, Batman, Catwoman and Superman, written by Marie Lu, Sarah J. Maas and Matt de la Pena.
Recommendations
Read it!
Overall Rating: 91%
SPOILERY DISCUSSION
Oh so this takes place in the 21st century? So this is not in line with DCEU, interesting.
This was my earlier thought: if Jason is Alia's brother, was he also a Warbringer? But this turned out to be wrong because Jason inherited the strength of the kings of Greece and Rome.
This feels like another play on her origin story, which is a pretty refreshing take because I have not seen 1 so in the 21st century. This brought about interesting and relatable jokes.
When Diana complained about air travel and men being proud of their innovation of a flying metal chamber, I'm like, hey you got an invisible jet HAHA. (maybe in the near future who knows.
Really?? Jason you had to betray everyone?? He wanted to keep and protect Alia just because he wanted her to wage war and wanted to turn up on top of everyone else.
That moment when Jason drained Diana of her blood? Like he just killled her right there and then after that his minions killed off Theo and Nim. I was in despair like no he could not have killed them. Then Diana pled to the goddess (Athena I believe?) and then she was offered the chance to return to Themyscira or save them. Then she wholeheartedly chose her new friends and did it for the greater good and this just really tied in the theme of having hope.
I really liked that scene when the company used the Lasso of Truth(Hestia) to play this game which was essentially just to speak the truth, it was great.
That’s all I have to say. Feel free to approach me and talk to me!
The premise of this entire series is interesting, the people at DC are pushing into the YA sphere with the use of popular YA authors to write about DC characters - this is something Marvel (the other big comic book giant) did not do. Honestly this was a great and bright move, allowing even more people to come to love and understand these characters.
This book is set in present day world whereby we get to see Diana as a fish out of water yet again. This does mean that it is apart from anything that is in the media right now (like the DCEU) and a whole new world on it’s own. This book has a lot of representation (surprisingly this does make or break books for people, but yes there is a large diverse cast of characters in this novel).
The writing in this book is great, I mean coming from Leigh Bardugo I was pretty surprised because I did not leave the Grisha Trilogy thinking I would read her other work, but now I am actually interested to read her Six of Crows Duology.
Leigh Bardugo was so good at writing dialogue, it felt like the characters really came to life and distinguished themselves - the banter between them was great.
The mythos and plot behind Warbringer was really interesting because this felt like a original kind of plot to me - I haven’t seen something like this before and it was definitely refreshing to read.
I am interested to read the rest of the books in the DC Icons universe, Batman, Catwoman and Superman, written by Marie Lu, Sarah J. Maas and Matt de la Pena.
Recommendations
Read it!
Overall Rating: 91%
SPOILERY DISCUSSION
Spoiler
This mostly has my thoughts when I was reading the aforementioned book.Oh so this takes place in the 21st century? So this is not in line with DCEU, interesting.
This was my earlier thought: if Jason is Alia's brother, was he also a Warbringer? But this turned out to be wrong because Jason inherited the strength of the kings of Greece and Rome.
This feels like another play on her origin story, which is a pretty refreshing take because I have not seen 1 so in the 21st century. This brought about interesting and relatable jokes.
When Diana complained about air travel and men being proud of their innovation of a flying metal chamber, I'm like, hey you got an invisible jet HAHA. (maybe in the near future who knows.
Really?? Jason you had to betray everyone?? He wanted to keep and protect Alia just because he wanted her to wage war and wanted to turn up on top of everyone else.
That moment when Jason drained Diana of her blood? Like he just killled her right there and then after that his minions killed off Theo and Nim. I was in despair like no he could not have killed them. Then Diana pled to the goddess (Athena I believe?) and then she was offered the chance to return to Themyscira or save them. Then she wholeheartedly chose her new friends and did it for the greater good and this just really tied in the theme of having hope.
I really liked that scene when the company used the Lasso of Truth(Hestia) to play this game which was essentially just to speak the truth, it was great.
That’s all I have to say. Feel free to approach me and talk to me!