Nerdy, orphaned, biracial, and identifying as black, Alia is awkward and mostly friendless despite her family’s massive wealth. Alia wonders if her unusually dressed, oddly naïve rescuer is in a cult. Diana’s rescue of Alia from a shipwreck forces the princess into exile in order to prevent a foreordained global catastrophe. While most Amazons are women warriors rewarded with new lives after death, Diana alone is untested, molded from clay, eager to prove herself worthy. 'Warning: This novel about the young super hero crossing paths with a seemingly ordinary-but seriously powerful-girl may result in multiple fist pumps.DC Comics opens its new line of media tie-in novels with this Wonder Woman origin story.īardugo introduces readers to Wonder Woman with two alternating perspectives: Diana, princess of Themyscira, and Alia, a 17-year-old New Yorker. 'Feminism is the invisible jet powering this literary revamp of the Amazon princess.' - The New York Times Book Review 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.

And her fight is just beginning.ĭiana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. She will become one of the world's greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN.

'You’ll enjoy this book whether you’re a fan of Wonder Woman comics, the Wonder Woman movie, Leigh Bardugo, or just YA lit in general.' - Hypable The award-winning DC Icons story of the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO.

Wonder Woman by Leigh Bardugo