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A review by isitcake
The Warrior by Elin Peer
adventurous
fast-paced
2.75
I'm left feeling unconvinced that Magni's and Laura's relationship is mended. Like he finally seems to accept that women need more rights, and Mila plays a big role in that, but I feel like their relationship was kind of weird from the start.
Picking up right after the earthquake that hits, Laura decides to go after the 19 Nmen who managed to cross the border without being caught. So she leaves Magni again. Their reunion was shortlived anyway because he still doesn't view women as equal and he doesn't think women should have jobs. He's depressed and takes comfort in Mila's childlike concern for him. She asks how he and Laura met and part of the story is told in flashbacks.
Magni and Khan were sparring when a 9-year-old Laura saw 18-year-old Magni and asked if he would wait to compete for a bride so that he could marry her. Time passes and they occasionally see each other. When she's 14 he overhears men talking about her sexually because back then the age to be a bride was 15. That and some sorry deaths of a young man made Magni push Khan to pass laws that raised the minimum age to compete in bride tournaments from 16 to 22 and brides from 15 to 18. This also means Magni waits 11 years for Laura to turn 18. But she's a twin, and her sister April is 7 minutes older. At their dual tournament, April picks Magni first so she and Laura have a "cat fight" before 29-year-old Magni chooses 18-year-old Laura. Laura was instantly submissive and a "good little wife."
This was only 2 years ago. Laura is only 20 now when she ran away in book 1 and is going after bad men now. She's tall for a woman but it's easy to see why Magni would be concerned. The Motlanders catch most of the men so Laura only has to catch a few. She comes back while waiting for tips on the last one, Devlin, and she and Magni have a fight where she chooses living in the Motherlands over him in the heat of the moment. He runs off to Alaska for a month and she captures Devlin with the help of Hans (the fraud mediator from Finn's book) - although Devlin was happily living with a Motlander obsessed with Nmen at the time.
Laura goes back and lives at the school with Mila while Magni is gone. Some of Magni's soldiers hold Khan, Pearl, and Laura at gunpoint thinking that Khan has Magni locked up somewhere. When Magni finally makes contact, Khan tricks him into thinking Marco and Laura have been together to make Magni jealous and spur him home. Laura prevents Magni from fighting Marco and they truly reconcile. Later they adopt Mila as their daughter.
In the epilogue there's shit tons of kids.
Boulder and Christina have 3 and Raven
Khan and Pearl have 1 (Freya) and pregnant with another
Kya and Archer have 2
Finn and Athena have 2 boys and she's pregnant, and there's Tristan too
Laura and Magni have 3 - Mila, twins Aubri and Mason, and she's pregnant with another
Shelly goes back to the Motherlands to get a degree in psychology and Marco will become a mentor at one of the many experimental mixed schools that will be opening.
The Motlander and Nmen matching program is implemented with an algorithm that matches the woman (or 20 Motlander men) to 10 Nmen and from there she's supposed to pick 5 to meet. Devlin was one of the people in the program, hoping to get back to his Motlander woman.
Magni and Khan were sparring when a 9-year-old Laura saw 18-year-old Magni and asked if he would wait to compete for a bride so that he could marry her. Time passes and they occasionally see each other. When she's 14 he overhears men talking about her sexually because back then the age to be a bride was 15. That and some sorry deaths of a young man made Magni push Khan to pass laws that raised the minimum age to compete in bride tournaments from 16 to 22 and brides from 15 to 18. This also means Magni waits 11 years for Laura to turn 18. But she's a twin, and her sister April is 7 minutes older. At their dual tournament, April picks Magni first so she and Laura have a "cat fight" before 29-year-old Magni chooses 18-year-old Laura. Laura was instantly submissive and a "good little wife."
This was only 2 years ago. Laura is only 20 now when she ran away in book 1 and is going after bad men now. She's tall for a woman but it's easy to see why Magni would be concerned. The Motlanders catch most of the men so Laura only has to catch a few. She comes back while waiting for tips on the last one, Devlin, and she and Magni have a fight where she chooses living in the Motherlands over him in the heat of the moment. He runs off to Alaska for a month and she captures Devlin with the help of Hans (the fraud mediator from Finn's book) - although Devlin was happily living with a Motlander obsessed with Nmen at the time.
Laura goes back and lives at the school with Mila while Magni is gone. Some of Magni's soldiers hold Khan, Pearl, and Laura at gunpoint thinking that Khan has Magni locked up somewhere. When Magni finally makes contact, Khan tricks him into thinking Marco and Laura have been together to make Magni jealous and spur him home. Laura prevents Magni from fighting Marco and they truly reconcile. Later they adopt Mila as their daughter.
In the epilogue there's shit tons of kids.
Boulder and Christina have 3 and Raven
Khan and Pearl have 1 (Freya) and pregnant with another
Kya and Archer have 2
Finn and Athena have 2 boys and she's pregnant, and there's Tristan too
Laura and Magni have 3 - Mila, twins Aubri and Mason, and she's pregnant with another
Shelly goes back to the Motherlands to get a degree in psychology and Marco will become a mentor at one of the many experimental mixed schools that will be opening.
The Motlander and Nmen matching program is implemented with an algorithm that matches the woman (or 20 Motlander men) to 10 Nmen and from there she's supposed to pick 5 to meet. Devlin was one of the people in the program, hoping to get back to his Motlander woman.