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A review by moonpie
Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult
3.0
For whatever reason, my library doesn't own the first book in this series (I don't know what the technical term is -- this title? this run of Wonder Woman?) so I had to begin with Volume 2. Not sure if I'm missing much, but it was easy enough to start here.
I had extremely low expectations for Love and Murder, based on reviews plus Jodi Picoult, and I probably enjoyed it more than I normally would because I expected it to be so terrible that I'd have to toss it onto the DNF pile or something. It wasn't that bad! It was full of clichés (like a boring romantic subplot), it had a weird overdone fish-out-of-water thing to double-down on the whole "Wonder Woman is not human" concept, and I definitely preferred the version of Wonder Woman that I read in that last Batwoman TPB. I think it read more or less exactly how you'd think Jodi Picoult would write a Wonder Woman story.
That said, here are some good things! It was easy to follow the panels, I thought the art was great, and I liked Circe.
I don't care too much about the cliffhanger, which is good, since I'm not even going to touch Amazons Attack! -- between GR reviews and the fact that it doesn't seem to wrap up that storyline anyway -- and it doesn't look like it's addressed in the next collection. But it was okay.
I had extremely low expectations for Love and Murder, based on reviews plus Jodi Picoult, and I probably enjoyed it more than I normally would because I expected it to be so terrible that I'd have to toss it onto the DNF pile or something. It wasn't that bad! It was full of clichés (like a boring romantic subplot), it had a weird overdone fish-out-of-water thing to double-down on the whole "Wonder Woman is not human" concept, and I definitely preferred the version of Wonder Woman that I read in that last Batwoman TPB. I think it read more or less exactly how you'd think Jodi Picoult would write a Wonder Woman story.
That said, here are some good things! It was easy to follow the panels, I thought the art was great, and I liked Circe.
I don't care too much about the cliffhanger, which is good, since I'm not even going to touch Amazons Attack! -- between GR reviews and the fact that it doesn't seem to wrap up that storyline anyway -- and it doesn't look like it's addressed in the next collection. But it was okay.