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  • Heavenly Tyrant, the 2nd book in the Iron Widow series by Xiran Jay Zhou.

    I stumbled onto it randomly but it has all the things I love. It’s sci-fi with fantasy elements, anti-imperialism, and pro worker class warfare.

    The protagonist is a teen girl who is flawed but strong-willed. She doesn’t have all the right answers, she makes mistakes, and there are certainly people better than her. She seems real.

    There’s a kind of pacific rim meets starship troopers aspect to it. They use chi-powered “mechs” to fight alien invaders.

    The first book has some surprise revelations at the end that the 2nd book addresses.