Say it with me gang: “The Lasso of Truth is NOT A TOY.” There’s a twist that you will probably see coming and at one point Diana (who is, after all, still a teenager) gets talked into using her magic lasso for a game of Truth or Dare, which she very much regrets. Then there’s the road trip from Hell as the group tries to get to the spring while dodging attacks from the group that wants to kill Alia. There’s Diana as the fish out of water in Manhattan, which honestly I never get tired of. She is attracted to Jason but there’s not a ton of romance here. Canonically, Diana is also bisexual, but that doesn’t come up in this book. Alia and Jason are Greek-American and African-American, Nim is Indian-American, and Theo is African-American. There’s Alia’s overprotective and secretive big brother, Jason, Jason’s best friend Theo, and Alia’s best friend, Nim.
The stop in Manhattan allows the team to expand. It can also be prevented if Alia dies, and a heavily armed group is trying to make the latter happen.Īfter visiting the Oracle, Diana takes Alia off the island and back to Alia’s own island home (Manhattan). This can be prevented if Alia bathes in a particular spring in Greece before her seventeenth birthday, which is in a few days. When Alia turns seventeen the world will erupt into war not through any action of hers but just because of her existence. Alia herself is kind and friendly but when other people are around her they become edgy and irritable and often violent. She’s an otherwise ordinary mortal who carries a sort of conflict contagion.
The handy island Oracle tells Diana that this is due to the presence of Alia on the island.
She hides Alia in a cave, but the island starts exhibiting signs of collapse. Diana is, by Amazonian standards, a teenager, and she’s frustrated because the other Amazons seem to doubt her true worth.ĭiana ends up saving a human teen, Alia, from a shipwreck. In this new version of Diana’s origin, she leaves the Amazon’s island of Themyscira for the first time in the present day. Most importantly, the book stays true to the image of Wonder Woman that I hold dear – someone who values peace over war, someone who is deeply compassionate, and someone who recognizes different kinds of strength. However, once I got into the swing of things, and once the plot kicked properly into gear, I was swept up in this book. It took me awhile to get into Wonder Woman: Warbringer, which is very much written for a teen audience. Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
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