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Iron Widow (Iron Widow #1)

Xiran Jay Zhao

Start date: December 4, 2022

Finish date: December 31, 2022

Discussion: Series

Why we're reading this: Won the poll for the series book
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Dec 13, 2021 Lauren⁷ 💜 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, young-adult-teen-new-adult, library-has-a-copy, fantasy-science-fiction, best-books-read-in-2021

This was. That ending. I just. No. Words.

Okay. Thoughts gathered. Somewhat.
This was outstanding. Utterly outstanding. The characters. The plot. The excellent commentary on gender roles. And the feminism. Oh. The feminism! How I LOVED that! I also appreciated that Zhao was fearless in how they went for full on polyamory between Zetian, Yizhi and Shimin. And how Zhao was unafraid to go there with Zetian and make her much more anti-heroine than heroine. This book is pretty dark in some places. Th ...more

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Oct 02, 2022 Mercedez rated it liked it

Library book and Libby

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Feb 12, 2022 Courtney rated it it was amazing

Other than a few modern references which took me out of the story, I loved everything about this book! Definitely looking forward to more in the series.

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