Book #7 of 2025: Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #2) An excellent follow-up to author Xiran Jay Zhao’s smash hit Iron Widow, a YA feminist sci-fi reimagining of China’s 7th-century Empress Regent Wu Zetian. Although it doesn’t carry the same gleeful fury or as many giant mecha action sequences as the original …
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