Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, she was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But then her second-hand superpowers transformed her body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl.
It should be the happiest time of her life, but between her father's dangerous obsession with curing her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he's entitled to date her, and the classmate who is secretly a masked vigilante, Danny's first weeks living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined.
She doesn't have much time to adjust. Dreadnought's murderer, a cyborg named Utopia, still haunts the streets of New Port City. If Danny can't sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction.
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My Review: (Thanks to NetGalley)
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I feel like the idea of having a transgender main character was good, but the actual execution just made it feel cheap and gimmicky. It left the main character (and all the others actually) more annoying than anything. Danny was somehow very one dimensional and while she was young (15) she acted a lot younger which was annoying and off putting.
I love the whole superhero genre, but in this book, the world 'rules' were not explained and the heroes were not explained or fleshed out. What are their powers? How did each of them get it? How did Valkyrie's reincarnation work?/
Neither Graywytch nor Danny's father got their comeuppance and both got away with everything completely scot free which just pissed me off. Especially in Graywytch's case because she caused the deaths of innocent people by protecting herself and hiding while the battle was going on.
I might read book 2 if I got it for free, but I definitely wouldn't pay for it.
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