Danny has to solve how to defeat this super villain once and for all while juggling other duties like dealing with her parents and an old enemy.īetween Dreadnought and Sovereign, you can tell that the two books are connected perfectly, even with the time jump. Only that 'better' may not be the way you think it is. She also becomes across a new super villain that wants to change the world in a better way. In Sovereign, the story takes place 9 months after Dreadnought's debut, first major battle, and its consequences after it. I am just glad that I was able to read and review both amazing books. When it became available on NetGalley, I pressed request right away. When I was done with the book, I saw that there was going to be a sequel and I knew I wanted it then and kept an eye out for it. I was so happy that I was approved because I knew that I was going to enjoy it. Luckily, I was able to request the book on NetGalley and was approved. The Following Review will be posted on my blog, The Crown of Books on June 24th around Noon EST.īack in January, I came across the first book in the series, Dreadnought, and knew I wanted to read the book immediately. Daniels’ world expands to include even more exciting capes, including a successor to an old friend and a brilliant, nonbinary cape called Kinetiq.ĭaniels doesn’t just perfectly “queer the capes,” she delivers a book that’s tightly packed with brilliantly rendered fights, nail-biting scenes of peril, emotional authenticity, and a perfect first kiss. This complex is brilliantly threaded through an intense conflict against a billionaire supervillain and one of the more sinister of her old foes, not to mention some challenging subplots.

Healing from a lifetime of emotional abuse, Danny has anger issues and tunnel vision that cause her to unknowingly hurt others or not to notice her own insensitivity.

This sequel drops readers at a waypoint where Danny’s physically comfortable and finding her place among her fellow “capes,” but her physical strength allows long-standing emotional damage to come thundering to the surface. The first book’s arc showed the white protagonist’s growth from a terrified trans teen to a powerful, revered superhero who physically resembles her truest self. She sinks into the violence, feeling a bite of disappointment when she wins too quickly. On a never-ending cycle of thwarting supervillains, dealing with local police, going over interviews with her lawyer/publicist, Danny keeps to herself how the one thing that she loves the most about the job is the fight. It’s been nine months since the last Dreadnought was blown apart and he transferred the mantle-and the responsibilities-to teenager Danny Tozer, and she’s already world-weary.

Sovereign by april daniels