It makes the novel feel like mainly a sci-fi but with a touch of fantasy, which is one of my favorite things! I love the contrast between the lives of the poor and the lives of the rich, which we get to see through our different main characters. There are military bases on the Great Wall!! The technology is kind of a mix between straight sci-fi stuff, and divine power stuff. It’s like Pacific Rim but in an ancient Chinese setting. I couldn’t stop reading it, but I also never wanted it it end!! Maybe I’ll just have to reread it many many times until the sequel comes out…haha. Found family, queer characters, GIANT ROBOTS? Ancient China inspired setting, vengeance, unapologetic rage, and so much more. This book was incredible, and I cannot wait for the sequel. I’ve absolute found both a new favorite book, and a new favorite author. 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.
But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily.
To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia.
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. 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. 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. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. 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. Published by Penguin Teen on September 21, 2021
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1) by Xiran Jay Zhao
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