REVIEW: Wonder Woman: Warbringer - Leigh Bardugo

Title: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Series: DC Icons
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 364 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

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.

Thoughts

I have heard so much about this book and how great it is that I decided it was time to pull it off of my bookshelf where it has been residing since it was released and start reading it.

I found the beginning of the book to be very slow going, it took me a while to get through this as it was just so slow. Introducing the characters took quite a lot of time, and introducing Alia and who she was, just took too much time in my opinion.


I loved Diana, and seeing one of her adventures before she became the Wonder Woman, that we know was interesting, I just think it had problems with pacing.
I did like Alia as a character, she was written well and after the slow beginning, she developed well as a character later on.

Overall it was an OK book to me, and I will read the rest of the DC Icons series.