If Onyii’s rise from maimed child soldier to feared mech fighter and Ify’s steely ascent within Abuja gripped you, you’ll love how Wu Zetian kicks down every door in Iron Widow. Like the mecha battles in War Girls, this throws you into cockpit-fused combat where synchronization can kill—only Zetian turns the system on its head. The conspiracy, the rage at being used by war machines, and a heroine who refuses to be anyone’s weapon echo the same electric, take-no-prisoners energy that powered Onyii’s legend and Ify’s ruthless savvy.

The radiation-scarred Nigeria-Biafra battlefields, the drone strikes, and the child fighters torn apart in the raid that separates Onyii and Ify have a brutal mirror in The Drowned Cities. Mahlia and Mouse navigate a drowned, jungled America where warlord factions conscript kids and survival demands impossible choices. If the fallout of tech-scarred landscapes and the moral wounds of war in War Girls stuck with you, this will hit just as hard—and ask the same haunting questions about what violence makes of us.

If you were hooked by the Abuja schemes that pull Ify upward, the Biafra–Nigeria propaganda wars, and the secrets behind the tech (from mechs to Ify’s Accent), Rosewater delivers a labyrinth just as intoxicating. Set in a near-future Nigeria orbiting an alien biodome, Kaaro—a reluctant psychic working with a shadowy government unit—uncovers layers of state coverups and bio-tech mysteries. It’s the same tension you felt when alliances in War Girls kept changing under political pressure, only folded into first-contact intrigue and espionage.

If the alternating viewpoints of Onyii on the front lines and Ify navigating Abuja gave you that wide-angle, ground-level feel, Lagoon expands it across Lagos. You’ll follow Adaora, Agu, and Anthony—as well as bystanders, folklore beings, and even sea creatures—as an alien arrival upends the city. Like the way War Girls uses multiple angles to show how war and tech touch everyone, this chorus of voices turns a single event into a living, breathing citywide experience.

Onyii’s transformation into the “Demon of Biafra” and Ify’s evolution from camp kid to power broker are as much about interior scars as external battles. In An Unkindness of Ghosts, Aster claws out room to exist aboard the stratified generation ship Matilda, decoding hidden truths while enduring systemic cruelty. If you valued how War Girls let its girls grow—hard, brilliant, and complicated—amid exploitation and control, Aster’s fierce, meticulous journey will feel achingly familiar and deeply earned.