Iron Widow

WELL OKAY.

Tbh I read this for the threesome, so once that part arrived (a bit late), I was satisfied. The dialogue sounds like a telenovela. I realized all the voices in my head sounded like dramatic English dubs about forty percent through and then I stopped listening to the voices. Of the dialogue.

Anyway, hoo boy, Zetian is NOT like other girls. Let me spell it out for you: this girl is SPECIAL y'all. It's like if Katniss was more angry, heck her Chrysalis even pulls out a goddamn bow like alright I see you. This book is very much Hunger Games but Mecha. I mean, we have the Capitol, the celebrity politics, Evil Government leader, “good” Government member, sweet murderous boy and hulking murderous boy, but the boys want to fuck each other too. Also being monogamous is being confined by the rules. Literally everyone would be poly if not for those pesky rules.

The positive is that I headed to Google early on to learn more about foot binding and it is fucking outrageous. My God. The hate to love thing between Zetian and Li though, ugh, cliche af. Also him being so built lmfao. But let's talk about the ending.

First of all I think torture is an absolutely unreliable means of extracting information but karma does as karma does.The final battle though, whew. I mean, it's clear to me that the gods are not actually gods. For some reason though, I didn't consider that they might be on another planet despite reading Bloodchild. I just figured it was some Maze Runner type shit. Like who the fuck just drops technology manuals lmfao.Anyway, it's Empress Wu to y'all heavenly cunts now and Empress Wu is absolutely going to crush y'all mercilessly.

This book was entertaining. Yeah I mean I could point out how much of an Nlog Zetian is and how cliche the triangle is despite its resolution being much appreciated, and how monogamy is depicted as just obeying the rules because “love is infinite”, how stilted the dialogue was, the entire prologue of info dumping, how much the plot is Hunger Games meets Maze Runner and how much filler there is in the plot and, wait, I just pointed them out. My bad.

Anyway, read this book.