Coupled with Alia’s overprotective older brother Jason, gentle mortals Nim and Theo, and Diana’s job becomes much more complicated.Ī central theme of the story is sisterhood. There’s the fact that Alia is initially reluctant to believe, then they are stuck on the wrong side of the planet, and the faction of people out to kill Alia before she fully becomes a Warbringer. Obviously we know the journey is not going to be easy, even with Diana’s god-like powers. There’s also the fact that on her island she’s the only one who was born an Amazon and not made one (in a Valhalla-like fashion, warrior women are given a place on Themyscira) so she thinks this quest will grant her the glory and respect she needs to feel like a proper Amazon. Diana has a theoretical knowledge of the mortal world and she has been warned several times of the violence of men, but she is also idealistic and wants to try to save the world. (Yep, no WWI story here fellas and no Steve).

The story starts off with a trained but untested Diana saving a mortal girl Alia off the shore of her island and then upon learning (through the Oracle) she is a descendant of Helen of Troy, and a catalyst for war, embarks on a quest to purify Alia of being a Warbringer, a journey that takes them from New York to Greece in the modern world. Additionally, since I read this in audio, I would like to say it is also has an awesome narrator in Mozhan Marno. We know her as Wonder Woman but this is like her origin story of sorts – her first quest as she slowly moves from mere Princess of Themyscira to being one step closer to the hero we all adore. Leigh Bardugo writing a YA novel about a teen Diana? Of course I was interested and half in love with the idea before I even read the synopsis. If they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war. Together, Diana and Alia 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. Even worse, Alia Keralis is no ordinary girl and with this single brave act, Diana may have doomed the world.Īlia 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 mere mortal. Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugoĭiana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters.

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