![]() At times Daniel can be heavy-handed with her exposition, and there are plot threads and character arcs that receive inconsistent amounts of attention at different points in the book. ![]() She never struggles with her own gender identity, only with other people’s expectations of her, which leaves a lot of room for anxieties and fears relating to the awesome godlike powers that have fallen upon her with no warning and no instruction manual.ĭreadnought is a first novel with some first novel problems. I was particularly excited about Dreadnought because it’s as much about Danny learning how to be a superhero as it is about her transition - maybe more? dunno - and I love that. So in the first place, it’s terrific to read more #ownvoices books about trans folks, and I hope as the years go on we’ll get more and more of these. All at once, she has girl parts and superhero powers, and neither of those is exactly easy to explain to the people in her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Danny is struggling with how to tell her parents that she’s a girl when the superhero Dreadnought falls from the sky, bestows all his powers upon Danny, and magically transforms her body into a girl’s body. Tfw basically all you have to say to convince anyone to read a book is the premise (cf: time-traveling pirates): TRANS GIRL SUPERHERO. ![]()
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