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Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
4.0

SICK AND TWISTED!! THAT REVEAL AT THE END IS SICK AND TWISTED!!!!!

As many have said, this book is palpably full of rage and if there's one think I love, it's a woman who is at her fucking limit. Sci Fi has to really intrigue me to read and I think they did a good job.

I will say the piloting system confused me a bit but that may moreso be my dumb brain. Give me a complex hard magic system? Hell yeah. Complex futuristic tech system? Brain explode. 

The historical aspects could be a bit strange as well as there's no...evolution of them beyond what they were when they were originally practiced if that makes sense?

I wish they'd indulged in the poly relationship a bit more. It felt a bit rushed and at times disingenuous, but I appreciate it being there at all.