Tag: Female Main Character

Iron Widow – Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron WidowĀ #1)

ā€œā€œYou can’t shoot me; I’m rich.ā€ā€ What is the Book about? 18-year-old Zetian joins the army to take revenge on her sister’s murderer. She becomes the concubine pilot of a fighting machine that can only be activated by the qi magic of a man and a woman together. But the power of the male pilot…

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Lady Macbeth – Ava Reid (Standalone)

ā€œIf she were a man, he would not ask her this. For men there is no debt of blood which goes unpaid. If the world tips in another’s favor, it must be made to tip back again. But the world is never in a woman’s favor. She cannot tip the scale. The only choice is:…

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Series Review: Empire of the Wolf – Richard Swan

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She Who Became the Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan (The Radiant EmperorĀ #1)

ā€œInside her there was only the perfect, blank brightness of belief and desire. Desire is the cause of all suffering. The greater the desire, the greater the suffering, and now she desired greatness itself. With all her will, she directed the thought to Heaven and the watching statues: Whatever suffering it takes, I can bear…

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Hills of Heather and Bone – K.E. Andrews (Standalone)

ā€œ“I didn’t. I certainly didn’t think Morhenna would survive,” I reply, shifting against the hull digging into my back. The chicken lifts her head at the sound of her name before preening her wing. “Maybe she has some divine protection after all.” “I thought if anyone was going to survive, it’d be Henna.”ā€ What is…

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Fathomfolk – Eliza Chan (Drowned World #1)

ā€œNo matter the uniform she wore, the exams she passed, the ideas she brought to the discussion; they would always see her as Fathomfolk first.ā€ What is the Book about? In the semi-flooded city, humans are, quite literally, on peering down from skyscrapers and aerial walkways on the fathomfolkĀ ā€”Ā sirens, seawitches, kelpies and kappasā€”who live in…

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