Wonder Woman: Love and Murder

Creative Team:  Jodi Picoult, Terry Dodson, Drew Johnson and Paco Diaz

Goodreads Summary:
"New York Times" bestselling author Picoult ("The Tenth Circle") puts Wonder Woman on a collision course with her long-missing people, the Amazons, in this action-packed story.  After Special Agent Diana Prince is assigned to capture Wonder Woman, her problems are only beginning, as a deadly foe begins to close in on her.

My Review:
3 out of 5 stars


I have always been a huge fan of Wonder Woman and after reading Wonder Woman:  Who is Wonder Woman? I picked up this at my local library.  The book collects issues #6-10 of the 2006 run of Wonder Woman, although you do not need to have read the previous issues in order to understand the story.  This particular volume was intriguing because it was written by Jodi Picoult, who is a well known fiction author and I was interested to see what she would do with the story.

In this collection, Wonder Woman is still battling with her new human identity of Diana Prince, a special agent for the Department of Metahuman Affairs.  She is having trouble blending in and being human and is also being ordered to capture Wonder Woman without revealing that she is the one they are after.  As well as dealing with these pretty normal problems, she is also trying to deal with Circe being back and impersonating her to frame her for evil deeds she did not commit.  Things take an even more crazy turn when her mother, Hippolyta, is brought back from the dead and is determined to wage war on the Earth.

Wonder Woman is great as ever in this collection even with the addition of dealing with human problems.  She's struggling with trying to find her place and it's great to watch her try and make her way through the world.  I really enjoyed this collection and I'm very curious to find out more about Hippolyta being back and where she will play a role in the future issues.  I just love how some of the humor in this book, there is a great scene where Nemesis is saving a girl who is falling and Wonder Woman shows him the proper way to save her... And her cat.  

I think that this volume was great and I really enjoyed reading it.  Was it perfect?  No.  But it's a great read for those who love Wonder Woman and I will be reading the next continuation which is Wonder Woman:  Amazons Attack! which is written by Will Pfeifer with art done by Pete Woods.

The Greek Tycoon's Unwilling Wife by Kate Walker

                                               

Goodreads Summary:

He thought she was his mistress...

Recuperating on his private Greek island after a car crash, Andreas Patrakos had no memory of the previous year.  The last thing he remembered was his passionate affair with beautiful Rebecca Ainsworth.

...when, actually, she was his wife

Becca returned to the island because Andreas asked for her.  But she had to hide the truth.  What would happen when Andreas recalled throwing Becca out - on their wedding day - for a reason only he knew?

My Review:

3 out of 5 stars

After a car accident, Becca is called back to Greece to come see her estranged husband.  After not seeing him for a year she doesn't know what he could possibly want with her but when she realizes that he has lost the memory of their separation she doesn't know how she's going to keep her love for him a secret.

Becca is a charming main character and her memories of her time with Andreas are very heart-wrenching and her character is really easy to identify with.  At first, Andreas seems totally over the top and angry but when his thoughts and feelings are shown, we get to see a side of him that has just been hurt and is trying to protect himself.

I really enjoyed the buildup of the book but I found that the ending and resolution of the book was a little too tied together.  A lot of the explanations were too simple for me and while I did predict it would end the way it did, some of the reactions seemed a little unrealistic.  Even though I didn't particularly like how the book resolved the conflict I thought it was understandable because it is a Harlequin novel so those simple plots are a given.  I did enjoy the book for what it was though.

            

While I wouldn't say this was a bad book and I did enjoy reading it, I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend this book to someone either.  It was a nice quick read though so I enjoyed it from that aspect.