Join us for our June book club discussion of Dreadnought by April Daniels. This is a young adult speculative fiction novel about a trans girl who receives the mantle of the superhero Dreadnought and must face the challenges of becoming a superhero even as she deals with the fallout in her personal life.
From the publisher:
Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero. 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. 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. Now there’s no hiding that she’s a girl.
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. 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.
She doesn’t have time to adjust. Dreadnought’s murderer—a cyborg named Utopia—still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. If Danny can’t sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction.
Join the GiC Book Club in person at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA! We will meet on Saturday, June 16 at 5 p.m. You can RSVP on Facebook at this link. Please visit or call Main Point Books to pick up or reserve your copy of Dreadnought or order its sequel, Sovereign.
