I also really liked the conflict between the Legion of superheroes really wanting to make Danny feel welcome, but also just being absolutely not prepared to deal with the hateful transphobic comments of one of their own. I think it's a notable achievement to make a character so decidedly OP while still making me as a reader feel like shit can go wrong at any time. When she fights she feels pain, gets thrown off balance, gets pinned, gets into trouble etc. I really appreciated that even though Danny's superpowers make her almost invincible, it never feels like there are no stakes. It's not particularly deep but it sets up exactly everything it needs to in order to make the world feel real imo. The worldbuilding feels familiar in a sense, in that it's sort of 'standard superhero' fare, but that worked just fine for me. This is an absolutely solid superhero origin story, and the instant gender transition at the beginning ads a wonderful and unusual twist to it, even if you're not specifically looking for lgbtq fiction. If anything, you could criticise that large parts of the story are not consequences of her own actions (she does get dragged into things a bit), but it's not like she doesn't have agency She is obviously insecure due to her father's continuous verbal abuse, but she's a smart and resourceful main character. It doesn't have a boring moment, it's easy to read, and it's a page turner. In terms of prose, writing, style etc, I just tore through this. I don't usually seek out either Urban Fantasy nor Superhero stories, but I thought the unusual PoV really made this interesting after stumbling across Dom Noble's review. Dreadnought’s murderer-a cyborg named Utopia-still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. She doesn’t have much time to adjust though. Now there’s no hiding that she’s a girl.īetween her father’s dangerous obsession with “curing” her girlhood and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she’s in over her head. 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. Recommended if you like: superheroes, urban fantasy, worldbuilding with established/known superheroes and villains, alt history, marvel/DC-like setting, transgender main characters, teenage main characters, lesbian main characters, gender euphoria, secret identities, organized superheroism, overpowered main characters where the stakes still feel realĬontent warnings: transphobia (called out and dealt with tho!), abusive parents
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