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Oh, and they blast qi attacks, so the battles honestly read like a bunch of furries engaged in a Dragon Ball Z fight, and thatвЂ™s no oneвЂ™s fault but mine.Д¬atch this in your local bookstore TODAY. The pilots physically embody them, so itвЂ™s more Attack on Titan rules than Gundam. Under command of human pilots, these mecha take on forms inspired by East Asian myth creatures and transform like Transformers through Digimon-esque evolution lines that get more humanoid as you go on. A boy-girl pair in their teens, because of course they have to be teens, pilot the mecha Darling in the Franxx style, except in a much more sensible position (he hugs her from behind). Under siege by monsters beyond the Great Wall like that shitty Matt Damon movie, except the monsters are Cybertronian-like sentient machines, a society that has the fashion, social customs, and beliefs of Ancient China but futuristic tech fights back by pulling a Neon Genesis Evangelion and rebuilding their very invaders into giant mecha. Iron Widow will be translated into the following languages! They wonвЂ™t be released at the same time as the English version, but some time later. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way-and stop more girls from being sacrificed. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in HuaxiaвЂ‹.

She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected-she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, itвЂ™s to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sisterвЂ™s death. It doesnвЂ™t matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. Sign up to be the first to hear major news and updates about it! (Cover reveal, release date, ARC availability, etc.): It is now out in North American territories from Penguin Random House and in other English-speaking territories from OneWorld / Rock The Boat.

Rise of iron memes series#

The series follows an 18-year-old re-imagining of her as she avenges her sisterвЂ™s murder by an intensely patriarchal military system that pairs boys and girls up to pilot giant magical mecha based on creatures from East Asian myth (Nine-Tailed Fox, Moon Rabbit, etc.), but in which boy pilots are treated like celebrities, while girl pilots must serve as their concubines.

Iron Widow is a YA Pacific Rim meets The HandmaidвЂ™s Tale retelling of the rise of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history. The audiobook can be ordered from Libro FM!

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