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Stephen King: Stephen King No. 6/the Tommyknockers, Thinner and Bachman Books 4 Early Novels (Paperback, 1989, New American Library)
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The trouble with reviewing a book you really like is toning down the firehose of feelings into a readable piece that isn't just a bunch of heart emojis and squeeing. I'll give it a go however for the sake of the Iron Widow because I really enjoyed this book for very specific reasons.
The Rage - This is by far the best thing about the story. Women just don't get to be ANGRY in stories for very long and certainly not to their benefit. The main character of the Iron Widow is furious from the moment we meet her with damned good reason and instead of tripping her up it fuels her rise to greatness. God its so refreshing.
Even better - that reason is not because someone raped her. Yes, world, women can be angry about a number of things just like real people.
The Battle Scenes - Having …
The trouble with reviewing a book you really like is toning down the firehose of feelings into a readable piece that isn't just a bunch of heart emojis and squeeing. I'll give it a go however for the sake of the Iron Widow because I really enjoyed this book for very specific reasons.
The Rage - This is by far the best thing about the story. Women just don't get to be ANGRY in stories for very long and certainly not to their benefit. The main character of the Iron Widow is furious from the moment we meet her with damned good reason and instead of tripping her up it fuels her rise to greatness. God its so refreshing.
Even better - that reason is not because someone raped her. Yes, world, women can be angry about a number of things just like real people.
The Battle Scenes - Having been bored silly by fight scenes in several books this year, it was so fun to find a some that delighted and excited without bogging down into bloodthirsty detail for the sake of it. This is a book about giant battle suits after all so the temptation to take them out for a spin more often than the plot needed must have been enormous.
The Non-Romance - Don't get me wrong, there is love in this book and sex, but there is no Romance. Love doesn't make the main character suddenly re-evaluate her life goals. Sex doesn't make her weak. Relationships don't spring forth fully formed at first kiss. It is in fact wonderfully free of the love-at-first-sight tropes which get shoe-horned into so many unsuspecting books.
There were some minor things some readers might find an small issue with which I will outline only to show I haven't been driven entirely uncritical by my enjoyment of this deadly romp. The tone of the dialogue can be glib at times, and the ending feels rushed - so much happens but there is no time to really sit down and explore all the rapid fire events which crowd the last few scenes. And the ending leaves you with more questions than it answers, which might be a feature not a bug for some readers.
Final thoughts - I read the book in practically one sitting and I loved every minute. I hope it brings such joy to many others!
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Bounced off this one - beautiful language and world building but Suddenly Romance not my taste.
Some folks love this book and I can see why - good continuity of characters, real peril, some world building I can see is going to grow with the series.
It is no The Martian.
There is little humour and the characters are universally selfish, which you can justify Is because their world is harsh and selfishness is rewarded. I found the women in the book caricatures from the 1990’s, and the protagonist so-so.
I liked this by the end a lot more than I thought I would after chapter one. Initially I found it a bit clunky - aging ex sport star turned police chief, having affair with subordinate, doesn’t like e-readers…lives on an arc in space at the end of a two hundred year mission to bring the last of humanity to a new home.
I quickly forgot my raised eyebrows a The story found its feet and found lots to enjoy as mysterious vanishing turns into murder and then a threat to all of what remains of humanity.
The world building is fun, the secondary characters enjoyable, and the main character grows a lot.
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Started reading this by accident as mistook it for another author I quite like, so I gave it more of a chance than I would have ordinarily. Even so, I decided to stop after the third red flag about the main character's dated approach to relationships. Would have been absolutely normal attitude in the 80's but "My ex wife is such a bitch" just isn't classy like it was in the olden days. I was very glad to realise it wasn't by the author I thought it was.
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