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Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 / 5
Synopsis:
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.
Review:
I am not a big fan of Batman or Superman, and honestly I wasn’t a fan of DC at all. I really find their characters boring and I watched Wonder Woman solely because I really like Gal Gadot. But this book – this book is phenomenal. I LOVED IT. It’s fast paced and it is filled with action to the brim. Leigh Bardugo managed to incorporate the past and the future by bringing in old mythological gods and advance technology and medicine.
At first I was only interested about Diana because I thought that Alia and her brother Jason were bland but Bardugo proved me wrong with her crazy plot twists. It also helps that the characters she used are diverse and unique in their own way which made them interesting aside from the fact that they are connected to Diana.
The story is in a third person point of view which provides us insights of both Diana and Alia, but there are times were the POV would switch and I just wish that they hadn’t because I wish I’d see more about Diana. More so, Bardugo really knows how to give a story a bang. The ending to me is bitter sweet and ties the story really well and now, I can’t wait for Marie Lu’s Batman novel. All in all, would recommend. DEFINITELY.
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