Reviews with content warning for Misogyny - Iron Widow

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Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

1123 reviews

r3allybadusername's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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ezriamongthestars's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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clarksamanthab's review against another edition

1.0

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book was awful. The main character isn‘t just unlikeable- she‘s practically evil. Am i supposed to root for her as she enjoys torturing someone or destroying entire cities?? Additionally the older sister is main character’s whole motivation- but she is only given a name once in the beginning. the whole rest of the book she is just called „Big Sister“ as if the author forgot to go back and fill the name in in editing. Also, the romance was choppy and annoying- each time shed begin to get close to one guy, shed suddenly make a move on another. there was no clear development of her love for either man. Definitely there wasn’t enough time spent with the one who dies before he did. The whole time the main character rambles on and on this repetitive „man bad woman good“ crap. i get it’s supposed to be a feminist book but feminism isnt violence and rage without nuance. Overall the book was surface level and lazy. The only redeeming factor was the interesting worldbuilding.

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lemonbugs's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Where can I find this second book I need it NOW!!!!! This was so incredibly fun (and heartwrenching. Like seriously. The rollercoaster of emotions is crazy)!!! The characters are SO LOVELY I adore Zeitan and Yizhi and Shimin so much. They are so complex and they do some shady stuff but god how I love morally grey characters!!! Feed them to me!!!
Also adore how interactive the author is with the fandom!! The website with the memes and playlists is everything. I appreciate it endlessly!! Such a great read!!! Thank you for giving us the characters that we need <3

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amycat's review against another edition

4.5

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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katischr's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was such a good female rage read, and I loved that the FMC was straight up evil and made the worst possible choices at every turn, but damn did she do a lot of internal monologuing. I thought that the Iron Triangle was sweet and the world building was fun, and I can’t wait to see Wu Zetian be an even worse person in the next book!!

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nulliusmomenti's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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qentt's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I found this book incredibly interesting and enjoyable. Definitely a page turner. I wish the pace was a little bit slower to build on the main character

and her lovers

but I enjoyed the world building until the straight up last page.

Which, I had been wondering somewhat during the book but especially during the final battle if the Hunduns were truly the space villain, I’m very glad that got answered before the end of the book.

A bit of an unhinged female main character?! I love it, I don’t know if I’ve read a book like this before. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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dreadspawn's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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mantnam's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The main character is relateably imperfect, headstrong, and angry about the horrendous injustices of her society. Anyone who likes Evangelion or Gundam should give this a try. I never got into wither show but I thought this book was great.

The book was inspired by a lot of real Chinese history and I loved feeling like I was learning while I read this amazing story. It inspired me to learn some more about real history in that region.

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