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A review by giulsfloris
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Did not finish book. Stopped at 41%.
This book was slow, the protagonist Zetian was annoying, too arrogant and too focused on revenge.
I liked Shimin (male love interest) as a character, but I didn’t get to find out if I could like him more as the story went on because I decided to DNF the book.
I knew about the relationship that was supposed to happen and I couldn’t wait to read about it, but the story is too slow paced for me to continue reading.
This novel is supposed to be feminist and yet it felt like quite the opposite. The protagonist is a woman and she uses harmful sentences towards women that are already mistreated enough (she says things like “he died like a girl” just because she knows that this kind of sentences will make the patriarchal society very angry for comparing a man to a woman), she also never talked to another woman for more than a few seconds if I recall correctly. Therefore I’m not even sure this book passes the Bechdel test to be honest. It barely did in the first part of the story…
Soooo yeah, I was bored and eventually called it quits but I might try and read it again in the future.
I liked Shimin (male love interest) as a character, but I didn’t get to find out if I could like him more as the story went on because I decided to DNF the book.
I knew about the relationship that was supposed to happen and I couldn’t wait to read about it, but the story is too slow paced for me to continue reading.
This novel is supposed to be feminist and yet it felt like quite the opposite. The protagonist is a woman and she uses harmful sentences towards women that are already mistreated enough (she says things like “he died like a girl” just because she knows that this kind of sentences will make the patriarchal society very angry for comparing a man to a woman), she also never talked to another woman for more than a few seconds if I recall correctly. Therefore I’m not even sure this book passes the Bechdel test to be honest. It barely did in the first part of the story…
Soooo yeah, I was bored and eventually called it quits but I might try and read it again in the future.