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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