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Wonder Woman: Warbringer
by Leigh Bardugo
DNF at 40%!
This book isn't horrible. Just more contemporary than I expected.
I truly enjoy period pieces, especially when they involve super heroes. Like the Wonder Woman (2017) film set during WWI. Or the Captain America: The First Avenger film set during the WWII era.
While I appreciate diverse representation, there wasn't anything else that made Alia striking. Not to mention, her parents are dead. She also accepts who she may be a little too quickly.
It's not even Chapter 10.
Alia: "If we don't make it in the spring in time---."
Diana: "We will."
Alia: "But if we don't, I'm going to need you to kill me."
What teenage girl is that self-sacrificing? If I were in Alia's position, I would feel more scared and alone. While I understand that this is a fantasy, that doesn't mean the world shouldn't follow a basic set of rules or social norms. Not to mention, the dialogue is SO cheesy. But I can see why it appeals to the younger audience.
ANYWAY, I started this during summer for a read-a-thon and never finished. I picked it back up but felt that it dragged. I looked up some 3 star reviews and it seems that the consensus among those who feel most neutral about the book is that Diana is more or less acting as a glorified body guard for Alia, the book seems to be more about Alia and less about the Amazons, and that they felt Diana was written a bit one-dimensional and "Mary Sue". Therefore, I won't be continuing this one for the time being.
I can see how there are a lot of strengths to the novel (such as the clearly budding female friendship between Diana and Alia). I can tell that the author made the effort to be socially conscious, but I had a different set of expectations going in that were not met. I would have preferred a more action-driven story and less a character-driven one. Nonetheless, this book will mean a lot to it's intended target audience and I think it's wonderful that this book exists for the right readers.
Quotes:
- Her sisters were battle-proven warriors, steel forged from suffering and honed to greatness as they passed from life to immortality.
- Human life was a tide of misery, one that never reached the island’s shores.
- “It’s not just to ask someone to live half a life,” Diana said. “You can’t live in fear. You make things happen or they happen to you.”
This book isn't horrible. Just more contemporary than I expected.
I truly enjoy period pieces, especially when they involve super heroes. Like the Wonder Woman (2017) film set during WWI. Or the Captain America: The First Avenger film set during the WWII era.
While I appreciate diverse representation, there wasn't anything else that made Alia striking. Not to mention, her parents are dead. She also accepts who she may be a little too quickly.
It's not even Chapter 10.
Alia: "If we don't make it in the spring in time---."
Diana: "We will."
Alia: "But if we don't, I'm going to need you to kill me."
What teenage girl is that self-sacrificing? If I were in Alia's position, I would feel more scared and alone. While I understand that this is a fantasy, that doesn't mean the world shouldn't follow a basic set of rules or social norms. Not to mention, the dialogue is SO cheesy. But I can see why it appeals to the younger audience.
ANYWAY, I started this during summer for a read-a-thon and never finished. I picked it back up but felt that it dragged. I looked up some 3 star reviews and it seems that the consensus among those who feel most neutral about the book is that Diana is more or less acting as a glorified body guard for Alia, the book seems to be more about Alia and less about the Amazons, and that they felt Diana was written a bit one-dimensional and "Mary Sue". Therefore, I won't be continuing this one for the time being.
I can see how there are a lot of strengths to the novel (such as the clearly budding female friendship between Diana and Alia). I can tell that the author made the effort to be socially conscious, but I had a different set of expectations going in that were not met. I would have preferred a more action-driven story and less a character-driven one. Nonetheless, this book will mean a lot to it's intended target audience and I think it's wonderful that this book exists for the right readers.
Quotes:
- Her sisters were battle-proven warriors, steel forged from suffering and honed to greatness as they passed from life to immortality.
- Human life was a tide of misery, one that never reached the island’s shores.
- “It’s not just to ask someone to live half a life,” Diana said. “You can’t live in fear. You make things happen or they happen to you.”