I love Sarah J. Maas, even though I also admit that parts of her Court of Thorns and Roses series feel slightly inspired by/ derivative of Anne Bishop’s super trashy yet addictive The Black Jewels series. Something about the long lived winged warriors seems too familiar for Maas not to be pulling either from the same inspiration as Bishop at minimum, if not from Bishop herself. In fact, Maas is the reason I even became interested in the DC Icon series despite being more of […]
This is the Wonder Woman I Wanted
I was one of the people that liked Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman but didn’t love the movie that much (though the scene where she crosses No Man’s Land was pretty amazing). Something about her character felt too naive to me – “humans are innocent, if I kill Ares, all conflict will stop forever.” As a result, I liked this teenage Wonder Woman much more. She believes in helping humans, giving people opportunities, but also doesn’t think that one thing alone can be blamed for […]