![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re fun, easy to read and hard to put down, and best of all, they have a lot of heart. Bluntly put, Dreadnought and Sovereign are popcorn books-and I mean that in the best way possible. 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. ![]()
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