Supers - Danny interacts with several supers after the 'change' - namely the ones that belong to Legion Pacifica (the same superhero team Dreadnought was on, and the one that appears to be the team in the Northwestern part of the USA (if I have the borders right)). It is very quickly learned, though, that the father has been quite verbally abusive of his child for a very long time and Danny has been shaped by this abuse. Danny has a best friend named David, goes to school, and has two living barely functional parents.

For Danny isn't a young man, but a young woman (hence the secretly hiding near a mall painting toenails that started the book). different than before.ĭaniel/Dannielle 'Danny' Tozer is a 15 year old who has known for at least 7 years that they have been trapped in the wrong body - that of a young man.

Dreadnought shoves a glowing ball at Danny.ĭanny is kind of knocked out and when comes to is. That body being the superhero known as Dreadnought. A body lands near Danny's hiding spot and Danny tries to pull him into hiding. Office tower where the fight is occurring continues to explode. Danny, that 15 year old, groans when noticed that the explosions involve supers (superhero/supervillain fight).ĭanny tries to hide. If Danny can’t sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction.Ī 15 year old is out near a mall painting toenails when a building nearby starts to explode. 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. Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now.”-Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Skyĭanny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero. “I didn’t know how much I needed this brave, thrilling book until it rocked my world.

An action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick.

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