Iron Widow (Book 1)
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Iron Widow (Book 1)
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Rong Fu
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Xiran Jay Zhao
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A USA Today bestseller!
Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers.
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.
When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.
To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.
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The story was interesting, the main characters captivating, and the lead's attitude against oppression just so satisfying to hear.
Overall a very good queer YA book, and I was so thrilled to find polyamory in there! Very much looking forward to the next book.
A very good surprise!
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It has bisexuality, polyamory, feminism, mechas, "magic", treasons, love.
Lots of chinese words but it helped get into the book and its lore. The choice of voice actress was good.
The book was so captivating I had trouble pausing to rest x) And that ending... good thing there's a second book on the way :D
Bi/poly unhinged woman piloting a mecha
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A debut novel with some punch
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I liked the world building, but my problem resided with the characters and their relationships with one another. The main character could have been very interesting, but she just comes across as a "not-like-the-other-girls" type. Which is a shame, since the whole point of her character is to fight a sexist society. She hurts the other female characters close to her because they reproduce behaviors that were taught to them by an abusive society in order to survive; they never knew better. And this main character, instead of acknowledging that fact and help them free themselves, punishes them for it.
She's portrayed as a hero, a rebel against the sexist system she's being abused by, but she just comes across as a villain to me. Which could have been great ! Women don't need to always be the better person, the good feminist who helps everybody. And she's not, but we're told she IS ! And this dissonance between what we're told she is (a hero, someone who will free women, a feminist who wants to help women) and what she actually is (someone angry who wants revenge against those who hurt her, no matter their gender, a powerful woman with ambitions and strong values) is what made her so tiring 80 percent of the time. It's that show don't tell thing : you can tell me all you want who someone is, if i see that her actions, thoughts and words show me the opposite, i won't believe it.
The polyamory felt a bit rushed too, but it wasn't the worst part. It just felt a bit clumsy and awkward. As a poly bisexual woman myself, those stories are hard to find, so I appreciated the effort. It would have been better if the relationship between the two boys had taken more time to develop : it kinda felt like it happened because it needed to happen, rather than a natural progression between the two.
Anyways, I don't really understand why this book is so loved by many. It just felt like it had so much potential but was so badly executed I couldn't enjoy it.
Disappointing
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