All that is overshadowed, however, by how the books manage to balance the union of both trans and superhero narrative. I could pretty easily guess that Dreadnought and Sovereign are the author’s first novels a few expository and dialogue choices stand out a bit awkwardly, and I simply can’t believe the characters are as young as the text claims them to be. With her life upended and her family providing its own challenges, Danielle has to figure out who she wants to be with the whole world watching.
The sudden superpowers speed up her transition, but bring with them a host of pressures, judgements, and expectations from both the heroes and villains of the city alike. It’s during just such a superfight that the mantle and powers of one of the world’s strongest heroes, Dreadnought, are unexpectedly passed (another comic book trope, I’m pretty sure) to trans teenager Danielle Tozer. The books are set in a comic-book-esque modern day, where supervillains appear in history textbooks and it’s not unusual to see flying strongmen punch antimatter androids above the downtown skyline. I’m not all that into superheroes-I don’t really read comic books, I don’t follow superhero media-but I really enjoyed both Dreadnought and its sequel Sovereign by April Daniels. Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now."-Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the SkyDanny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero.Amazon Affiliate Link | Affiliate Link "I didn't know how much I needed this brave, thrilling book until it rocked my world. If Danny can't sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction.Īn action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick.
She doesn't have time to adjust.ĭreadnought's murderer-a cyborg named Utopia-still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. Between her father's dangerous obsession with "curing" her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she's in over her head.
It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny's first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those second hand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender.
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