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A review by akazen
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
4.0
BROTHER. Oh my god bro. This is quite honestly one of the best books I've read this year or just in general. Those last chapters had me shocked man. This whole book has had me shocked. To believe I randomly stumbled across this on my Goodreads home feed.
The characters, the greater consequences (can't explain), the ki titans? Mecha titans, oh man this was some good stuff. The Author's ability to have these emotions and memories, the society and culture be understandable yet distant and close simultaneously. A mixture of modern and historic (?) in the world. The writing for the main characters, something that you could empathise with but understand her POV is INCREDIBLY biased/different to everyone else's due to her past experiences/expectations.
The Narrator for this book was great, it had to grow on me a little but once it did, it was pretty firm.
The writing was fairly solid but it also had to grow on me, originally I had felt it rather peculiar though I feel like that might be more a thing due to how it reacted with the narration.
The characters man, and gods the characters, that ending? I'm broken.
I NEED the next book man.
4.5*
The characters, the greater consequences (can't explain), the ki titans? Mecha titans, oh man this was some good stuff. The Author's ability to have these emotions and memories, the society and culture be understandable yet distant and close simultaneously. A mixture of modern and historic (?) in the world. The writing for the main characters, something that you could empathise with but understand her POV is INCREDIBLY biased/different to everyone else's due to her past experiences/expectations.
The Narrator for this book was great, it had to grow on me a little but once it did, it was pretty firm.
The writing was fairly solid but it also had to grow on me, originally I had felt it rather peculiar though I feel like that might be more a thing due to how it reacted with the narration.
The characters man, and gods the characters, that ending? I'm broken.
I NEED the next book man.
4.5*