6/7/2023 0 Comments The iron widow![]() ![]() I actually opened a NetGalley account for it and I did it precisely because I felt the same as the author. Iron Widow is the first eARC I have ever requested. Yet I love the power it’s given me, a power that lies in being underestimated, in wearing assumptions as a disguise. I hate the way I’ve contorted myself into what people think a girl should be, ready to please, ready to serve. ![]() And even though that spoke to me, what spoke to me louder was the alternate pitch the author put out: it is more like the anime DARLING in the FRANXX but with a story based in the gongdou genre (Chinese palatial harem tales like the hit C-drama Story of Yanxi Palace), both of which I am more familiar with than I care to admit. The pitch for the regular person on the street is that this is “a Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid’s Tale reimagining of the rise of the only female emperor in Chinese history”. ![]()
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