Book Review: Wonderwoman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Title: Wonder Woman: Warbringer

Author: Leigh Bardugo

Series: DC Icons #1

Genre: Young Adult, Superheroes

Publisher: Random House for Kids

Pub Date: August 27, 2017

Pages: 376

My Copy: Hardcover That was in my Too be Read Pile 

Book 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.

Book Review:

This was a great action packed adventure. I love that this book had some great characters. Diana and Alia are two young women who find themselves in a situation that they never imagined being in. I like how this book takes place in several locations, modern day New York included.  Diana and Alia are from different worlds and yet they find themselves together in an adventure.

What I like about this book is that we start off in Diana’s home. Diana is looking to prove herself in a race. Diana has overheard certain things that her mother has said to other amazons who have proven themselves in battle. She also has learned things about herself and this makes her want to prove herself more to make her mother proud, who is the Queen of the Amazons.

One of the things that happens is that there is a race. Diana is so confident that she will win this race because she has been practicing and working hard at preparing for it. Plus she has a strategy. What Diana doesn’t count on is that someone unexpected comes onto the island and it will make her life much more interesting and complex. Diana sees a ship on the beach and decides to investigate and finds a young woman about the same age as her washed up on the beach. What happens next is something else entirely unexpected. She helps this young woman whose name is Alia and hides her in a cave.

We learn that Alia somehow has landed on this island and was vacationing in Greece and got to this island which she shouldn’t have. Diana has a plan to get this young woman off the island. We learn from the Oracle that Alia has already bought chaos and disruption to Diana’s home. Alia is a war bringer. A War Bringer is someone whose destiny is to bring War and much chaos. So of course, Diana and Alia end up back in New York. New York is nothing like Diana ever imagined. It’s very big and massive. Of course things are run a little bit different in Alia’a home.

Nothing is ever easy for Diana and Alia as they are trying to make their way through New York and other places. I like how Alia’s brother plays a major role in this book.  Jason is someone who comes off as very confident. A little overprotective of his sister, but yet things happen with Alia’s brother in a way that no one can expect. There are other characters that we get to know like Theo and Nim, who you come to love just as much as our main two or three, if you count Jason. Jason is definitely not what you expect. 

Everyone goes through a series of crazy events on the way back to Greece. Also Diana wants to get back home. She is in the world of men and there are crazy events and things that get thrown at them, that no one could have predicted or seen coming. I also love how all the characters have things happen to them and that they all have conflicts and arguments about how to precede and what plan should they follow and then we get a twist that no one could have predicted.

Jason decides to reveal that he has been the one who should have been given the Warbringer blood. He is the one who wants to rule the world and needs his sister to do that. Things happen. A battle happens between Diana and Jason. Diana decides not to go home and helps her friend defeat her brother and save Alia’s life. It shows that Diana is strong and a hero. Plus she returns home and is now a warrior according to the Oracle. 

I really enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would.

Rating:

4 Hearts