“You dance differently when you know you won’t live forever.”ĭiana is an immortal from the island of Themyscira, where she is part of a women’s only community known as the Amazons. The origin story created for Wonder Woman in this book was so amazingly done that I honestly can’t imagine not having read this, now. This is probably one of the best books that I have ever read, and I loved it so much I actually started reading it again as soon as I finished the first time around. While I typically stay away from really hyped up books because I never really love them as much as I hope I will, this is one of those times where I kind of threw all caution to the wind and bought this one, and read it as soon as it came in.įirst off, that cover is freaking gorgeous. I know, I must be crazy not to have), I saw nothing but really awesome reviews for this book and I wanted to read it. While I haven’t read any other books by Leigh Bardugo (yes, I have all of her other books, but I haven’t read them yet.

To be honest, I hadn’t expected this one to become one of my favorite books, mostly because I really didn’t know much about Wonder Woman going into this – then again, I’ve just recently started falling in love with superheros, plus with how amazingly well this book was written, how could I not love it, right? I’m somehow getting incredibly lucky with all of the great books that I’ve been reading lately. Because if they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war. Tested beyond the bounds of their abilities, Diana and Alia must find a way to unleash hidden strengths and forge an unlikely alliance. Two girls will face an army of enemies-mortal and divine-determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. 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. She doesn’t know she is being hunted by people who think her very existence could spark a world war. Diana will soon learn that she has rescued no ordinary girl, and that with this single brave act, she may have doomed the world.Īlia Keralis just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law-risking exile-to save a mortal.

Princess Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters.

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