Gorgeous artwork, but the story is not quite as strong as the recent awesomeness from Gail Simone.
I enjoyed Sonja's reasoning behind the chainmail bikini and almost like the fact of her owning her sexuality and using it as a weapon just as fierce as her sword.
However, the lovesick would-be rapist Bregan really put me off the story. It is understandable that a man when saved would either be spiteful toward or fall in love with his savior. But it goes a bit far and was a bit of a trigger seeing him trying to "best" Sonja when she's drunk. Her reaction to him in the demon world is pretty damn strange too given his actions and completely off character.
So, an interesting read, but nothing that wowed me like other Sonja stuff in the past.
*Digital review copy provided by NetGalley & the publisher.
I enjoyed Sonja's reasoning behind the chainmail bikini and almost like the fact of her owning her sexuality and using it as a weapon just as fierce as her sword.
However, the lovesick would-be rapist Bregan really put me off the story. It is understandable that a man when saved would either be spiteful toward or fall in love with his savior. But it goes a bit far and was a bit of a trigger seeing him trying to "best" Sonja when she's drunk. Her reaction to him in the demon world is pretty damn strange too given his actions and completely off character.
So, an interesting read, but nothing that wowed me like other Sonja stuff in the past.
*Digital review copy provided by NetGalley & the publisher.
