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kingcriccket · 2 years ago

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Final thoughts on iron widow are that it is very fun to watch someone break stuff for a couple hundred pages but that it was pretty overhyped as anything beyond that. If it wasn't marketed as this groundbreaking feminist ThingTM I would have liked it more I think bcos politically it's a bit incoherent besides being very firm that girl power Is Good and sacrificing girls to be car batteries for mechs is Bad. Boo the patriarchy. Did Wu Zetian effectively utilize girl power when she slaughtered innocent people in her big dragon suit? etc

#iron widow #GOD sometimes the character would basically directly look into the camera and State Her Progressive political Views #which is so fucking tiresome like! even though they are values that I share!#if you have to directly tell people what your book's political message is your book isn't conveying that message well enough...#the story should tell us #anyway I saw a review of iron widow saying #'I think this book was too edgy for me'#and I see their point but disagree. most of this book was a bit meh but as a wild ride through shit #I would have found super badass at 15. it was a fun time.#very predictable twist at the end but that's fine #at least that means it was set up properly lmao #it's alive!#I can't believe THIS is the book I finally finished after being in a reading drought for so long.#it was a page turner tho. so

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