I loved the short stories regarding fourteen warrior women. My favorite was Zenobia. I have known many of these women that weee written. Therefore, these stories were a treat. My only wish was that they were longer and some of them were a full novel. Still, this novel will thrill many who love strong historical women!

Lovely book, I very much enjoyed reading it and would most definitely recommend this book to readers interested in history and womans storys.

This is such a great book it is full of female warriors and if you love true stories and the underdog winning you will love these. My favorite was Atalanta and the Warrior woman from Vietnam. They are mixed with romance is an adventure but they all have a story to tell and they are told in this book. A book I highly recommend. Please forgive any errors as I am blind and dictate my review but all opinions are definitely my own I want to thank NETGALLY and the author for this review copy

Simple storytelling narrative with a decent mix of nations and time periods. The narrative is not overly taxing and it was - for me - a quick read. All of the ladies present were know to me - however, I am sure readers will enjoy learning about some that may not be so well know.

A decent read for an independently published tome.

I ultimately made the decision to put this book down 30% through, my opinion was unlikely to change and it would’ve been a disservice to drag myself through the remainder the book.

‘Warrior Women’ is what the names suggests - a collection of a short stories about influential female fighters in history. I was intrigued by the nature of the book, but the delivery fell flat.

It kind of read like a list of facts, with very little flow or style to the writing. It was clearly well researched but the book was not well-presented in the slightest, it dragged on and, contrary to the title, seemed to focus more on the men of the stories - with the women swooping in at the very end.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC.

This is a compilation of fifteen short essays/stories that discuss some important women in history. The women selected are from around the world, and range in time from ancient to modern history.

I picked up this work expecting it to be filled with gripping short stories about women who shaped the world. I was a little disappointed to find out that many of the stories were written more as essays or entries in an encyclopedia. A few of the entries were a little more like works of historical fiction, but then fell back into the essay-like form. These entries were not written in a way that brought the stories to life and there was no emotion present in these stories.

Several of the stories were entirely too broad, taking the focus away from the woman who was supposed to be the center of the tale. Atalanta’s entry was quite long, but a solid third of it (maybe even close to half) was the story of Jason and his companions, whom she did eventually join with. The story of Gwenllian was similar in its broadness and lack of meaningful focus on the main female character (except for reminders that she was beautiful). Also, most of the stories were still male-centric in a way that completely detracted from the purpose of this work.

On a more technical note, there were many things I noticed about this work that need to be fixed. There was a lot of awkward wording, to a point where I had to reread sentences to try and understand what the author meant. There were also tense changes throughout the same paragraph and several typos. This work needs to be edited. All that being said, I did like that the author included images of each woman at the beginning of her story.

This compilation was a good idea, but unfortunately it wasn’t executed well. A lot of good historical details were included, but the women who were supposed to be the focus of these stories got lost in the details.

I received a complimentary copy of this work through NetGalley. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.