Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse AndersonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Diana has always known she was different than the other
Amazons. She was created out of clay and
her mother’s tears. She isn’t as strong
or agile as the other women, but she has been promised that will change when
she turns sixteen. It is now her sixteenth
born day and she is excited to be “normal.”
Not only is she still clumsy on her born day, but a refugee raft also
comes through the barrier and she dives into the water to help. Unfortunately, her helping them strands her
on the other side of the Themysciran barrier.
Diana is now plunged deep into the refugee crisis and many other human
rights issues that are plaguing the world.
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is a graphic novel origin story
that is powerful and timely. I have to
start by saying that I wish more time was spent in the second half of the
book. Anderson used a lot of pages to
give back story and then the climax was sort of thrown in to give the book
meaning. I would have liked more information
about the issues at the end, even if that made the book longer. I still enjoyed this story and liked the
different view it gave of Diana and her struggles with the modern world. I hope there will be another story written
about THIS Diana … Wonder Woman.
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