Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Iron Widow - Seele in Ketten by Xiran Jay Zhao

151 reviews

purple_dndingo's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Amazing book. I am loving this series and cannot wait for the next book.
I am enthralled with the character advancement and changes in detail as Zetian becomes more informed on deeper layers of her main struggles with gender politics, societal constructs, and power dynamics around personal vs community freedom. Its great watching her work with what she has and try to make the most of her situation. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War

richy_qu33r_readzz's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-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: Yes

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It was a lot more hetero (romance??) than I expected. Would have loved to see more about qi & training the pilots, tho there was a fair amount all at once. The character arcs, while frustrating at times, make sense. I wasn’t sure where this book would go but I’m here for the communist revolution. Glad it stayed believably messy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, War

Minor: Trafficking

ddnreads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring 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: No

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What the actual fck was that 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy

teyn's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

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Loved this! It reminded me a bit of Brandon Sanderson's Skyward series but with all my own political leanings. I'm obsessed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, War

Moderate: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Confinement, Forced institutionalization

perfectcupoftea's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I think this book is more up the alley of political science students than fans of big fighting robots. Kind of disappointing after how good Iron Widow was. I finished IW in like 2 days because it was great, full of action and fast paced. Heavenly Tyrant was much slower paced comparatively and the action was very spaced out between long bits about government and politics. I thought the relationships between the characters were interesting, but the pacing just threw me off too much; I guess I’m just not a fan of slow plots. The ending was quite exciting and hopefully a third book will find a good middle ground between the action and slower paced political strategies. Looking forward to the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Alcohol

kimmychii5's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Classism

Moderate: Death, Grief, War

Minor: Blood, Medical content, Pregnancy

ohnonoe's review against another edition

2.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Unfortunately a disappointing sequel to my first five star read in a year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Classism

ironcheerio's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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: Complicated

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Loved it! Not as much action as the first book, more political intrigued. Very socially relevant. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, War

kukazashi's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Rape, Self harm

that_brish's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I’m  adding this to my list of sequels that did not go where I expected. I thought this was going to be a duology and it very much was not. Sometimes it read like a socialism 101 diatribe. And then the world building got MASSIVELY out of hand. Was I glued to my seat? Yea. Did I have a good time? Ummm

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, War

Moderate: Sexism, Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexual violence, Trafficking

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