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  • Iron Widow (Book 1)

  • De : Xiran Jay Zhao
  • Lu par : Rong Fu
  • Durée : 12 h et 14 min
  • 4,1 out of 5 stars (19 notations)

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De : Xiran Jay Zhao
Lu par : Rong Fu
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Description

2021 GoodReads Choice Award

2021 Nebula Award

An instant number one New York Times best seller!

Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA listeners.

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.

©2021 Xiran Jay Zhao (P)2021 Penguin Teen
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    Commentaires

    2024, Washington Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, Nominated

    2023, Green Mountain Book Award, Winner

    2022, Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, Winner

    2022, Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, Winner

    2022, Aurora Award - Best YA Novel, Short-listed

    2022, Barnes & Noble Children's & YA Book Awards - Young Adult, Winner

    2021, British Science Fiction Association Award, Winner

    2021, GoodReads Choice Award, Nominated

    2021, Nebula Award, Nominated

    Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!

    An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Young Adult

    An Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy

    A Polygon Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021

    An Indigo #1 Teen Book of the Year

    An Indigo Best Teen Book (2021)

    An Indigo Best Teen Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book (2021)

    A Barnes & Noble's Best YA Fantasy & Adventure of 2021

    A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens (2021)

    A Canadian Children's Book Centre Favourite Book of the Year (2021)

    A Boston Globe Best Book of 2021

    A Cultured Vultures’ “21 Best Books Of 2021”

    A 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee, Best Young Adult & Science Fiction

    Nominated for the Science Fiction Writers of America's Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

    "[This] duology opener will appeal to those seeking high-energy, feminist, queer narratives." (Publishers Weekly)

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    • Global
      5 out of 5 stars
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    A very good surprise!

    The performance of the narrator was a delight to listen to, and the fact that I got to hear the Chinese names and words said right is a big bonus point.

    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.

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    • Global
      5 out of 5 stars
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    Bi/poly unhinged woman piloting a mecha

    I'm usually difficult with sci-fi but THIS, this was quite the ride & I want MOAR. It could be summurised as: a bi/poly unhinged woman pilots a mecha to get her revenge on the patriarchy.
    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

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    • Global
      3 out of 5 stars
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    A debut novel with some punch

    Well rounded characters that will surely catch your heart, a compelling world building unapologaticly rooted in mecha culture, but the writting is still green and it shows!

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      1 out of 5 stars
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    Disappointing

    I'll be honest, I stopped listening before the end. The person reading the book did a great job, but that was the only good thing about this book. I heard about it through tik tok : science fiction mixed with historical elements, feminism, polyamory...I thought this would be the book for me ! But the whole thing was very disappointing.

    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.

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