There’s likewise a hint of Gail Simone (who gets a special shoutout in Bardugo’s acknowledgements section) and her well-known story arc, The Circle, in that there is a good number of Amazons for whom Diana is an aberration, who see her very creation as a harbinger of doom upon the island. This means the island is populated with a wide variety of women, from all different cultures and from all different time periods. The Amazons here are warrior women who died in battle, called on their gods - whoever they might have been - in their last moments, and were therefore resurrected to immortality on the island. Her conception of Themyscira pulls from the 1980s Post-Crisis tradition, with the goddesses creating Themyscira and gifting it to Hippolyta. It’s also plainly obvious just how much research Bardugo did prior to writing this book and how much she cares about and values the Wonder Woman mythos.
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