Review #680: Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons, #1) by Leigh Bardugo

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I used to want to save the world. To end war and bring peace to mankind. But then, I glimpsed the darkness that lives within their light. I learned that inside every one of them, there will always be both. The choice each must make for themselves - something no hero will ever defeat. I've touched the darkness that lives in between the light. Seen the worst of this world, and the best. Seen the terrible things men do to each other in the name of hatred, and the lengths they'll go to for love. Now I know. Only love can save this world. So I stay. I fight, and I give... for the world I know can be. This is my mission, now. Forever.

----Diana Prince, From the movie Wonder Woman by Patty Jenkins

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Review #29: New Sight by Jo Schneider

New Sight by Jo Schneider

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Magic when remains uncontrolled, can lead to grave destructions, even sometimes loss of mind! 16year old Lysandra Blake in the novel, New Sight by Jo Schneider, thought that she has gone crazy, when she started acting strange!

Thanks to the author, Jo Schneider, for providing me with a copy of her new novel, in return for an honest review.

Lys was spending her days in a mental institution owing to the fact that she always had this urge to rip off people's eyes, but with a sudden appearance of a new doctor, Mason, made her think otherwise. He convinced that in his institution people like her are treated and also she was not crazy, instead she was reacting to a drug. But when Lys arrives in that institution, she gets the real picture and figures out that she had magical powers and she never knew how to control it. Next we find those captives are running for their lives from one location to another, trying to escape from Mason and the plot becomes completely adrenaline-rushing and thrilling.

The author has opened a whole new dimension about the theory of magic. She has presented a set of rules and regulations and all the logical explanations behind the magical abilities, which were quite easy to understand. The characterization was quite strong, but we were not fed with the back-stories of so many important characters, so it got quite dull at times to read it.

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