Dreadnought

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Published Aug. 29, 2017 by Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio.

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978-1-5436-4236-0
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4 stars (28 reviews)

What happens when a trans* girl who is not out to her family accidentally inherits superpowers? Things change, a lot.

3 editions

reviewed Dreadnought by April Daniels (Nemesis, #1)

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5 stars

Superheroes aren't even my thing but I really enjoyed Dreadnought. It's got some solid worldbuilding, itself undergirded by a sophisticated but still compassionate worldview. Characters are well drawn and even if they are derived from tropes, their development delves underneath those tropes to reveal complexities underneath.

Review of 'Dreadnought' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

4.25 A very good YA superheroine narrative that manages to convey a lot of teenage angst, which is - for once - well-founded. Starting sounding a little like trans wish fulfilment, the April Daniels quickly puts an end to that notion and instead dives into a story that's at the same both very American and very queer. The main characters - unfortunately there are only three apart from Danny and her parents - are well-thought out, though the two villains are a little over the top, both the TERF and actual super villain - not that this isn't in keeping with the genre.

I'm struggling a bit to give it five stars. If I was still growing up, I would probably have loved this to bits, but it's a little short on the fitting in socially. The focus is on family and "caping". School is glossed over - except for …

Review of 'Dreadnought' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

This does a lot of good things as far as trans rep and I'm going to talk about those before I discuss why I don't recommend it as a whole. It handles issues of dysphoria in a realistic way, as well as showing the way that socially transitioning helped Danny experience gender euphoria once the medical side of transitioning was handled by the superpowers. One of the main plotlines deals with domestic abuse from a parent, with an ebb and flow to the verbal abuse which showed how the general pattern of yelling and silence created an overall situation which was worse than any one incident. She doesn't have everything solved by her body being transformed, which provides a narrative opportunity to show transphobia. When depicting scenes with transphobic slurs and other very cruel language it's often first depicted as a summary of what hearing those words made Danny feel, …

reviewed Dreadnought by April Daniels (Nemesis, #1)

Review of 'Dreadnought' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The moral of this seems to be that if yu’r trans and hav really transfobic parents, then yu’r in trouble unless yu hav literal superpowers. I mean, i get it, but i was expecting a more escapist story from the premis.
This book needs a content warning:
Abusive parents.

Oh, also, the downtown fight sene was too long.

Review of 'Dreadnought' on 'Goodreads'

No rating

If I had to hear a superhero book, I'm glad this one was my first. Picked it up off of Dominic Noble's YouTube review, and am not disappointed. As cheesy as superheroes are, there's something enjoyably cool about the power fantasy of them.

It was a really well crafted story. I feel like when this book gave me some info, it used it in the plot. Some relationships in the book relied on one or two interactions, I could have done with a bit more, but then again, I think it's a good length story and not dragged out. I got a bit bored when the fights came around, but that's just my preference, plotwise the fights were needed and were fine.

For a light-ish read unfortunately for Dany, this universe doesn't differ much from ours in that some people are transphobic and some people die this was a lovely …

Review of 'Dreadnought' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Much of the annoyance I had with this had to do with the fairly heavy handed opening, feeling in places as though the lead had been reduced to a cipher. But, it got better as it went along, and by the end while some of the style of writing wasn't my speed, the character building solidified nicely indeed.

Standard supers genre annoyance with dubiously consistent physics and geometries, including a pretty crucial endgame moment of, "Guys, that's not how physics works, and that's not a supers issue."

Bloody fabulous take on body adaptation, however - and the beginnings of one of the more fascinating approaches to, "This power has these elements," Which I'm really looking forward to more detail on.

Ditto some early clunky dialogue, but that too shaped up nicely by mid-book, and by the end character was driving things nicely. I fully expect to be blown away by …

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