The Cabbaleros Trilogy is amazing, and you deserve to read it; Cassie takes down 'mechs on foot not with brute force, but with guile, stealth, and being suicidally brave. (eg. making a Wolverine fall over by spot-welding its knee joint with a downed power line stuck to a broom handle, that she threw at the knee just before the 55-tonner was going to step on her)<br/><br/>Admittedly, it's only a 'hobby' because she is ~very~! mentally and emotionally broken, and a large part of the story is her trying to come to terms with her past, and all the horrible things that happened to her. (eg; Maskirovka soldiers using her as a sex doll from the age of 9 to around 14 or so)