But there are definitely some people who are not, mainly a woman in the legion of superheroes in Danny's town and her own parents, and that poses a lot of issues in her life. When the powers are passed onto her, she gets the body she has always wanted and the body she has always wanted is very noticeably female (or are least what society perceives as the female form which is actually addressed in the book and I was thankful for).I'm not going to go into details of what that transformation means medically because I think the book addresses it perfectly. So far all of Dreadnought's successors have been men but Danny, who is AMAB, is a transwoman not yet out to anybody she knows. I think it's pretty important to note that this happens to anyone who carries Dreadnought's powers. Part of Dreadnought's abilities is giving it's user their "ideal body" and essentially shaping them into what they wished they looked like. When the superhero Dreadnought is killed by a villain, he passes on his powers to Danny. So, a brief breakdown of what this book is actually about before we go into my thoughts about it.
Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now.”-Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky “A thoroughly enjoyable, emotionally rich, action-packed story with the most exciting new superheroes in decades.
“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. Dreadnought’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 secondhand 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.
A trans teen is transformed into a superhero in this action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick.ĭanny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero.
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