![]() ![]() ![]() Sovereign drops nuggets of information about Danny’s genesis in Dreadnought and her ultimate conflict with Utopia throughout the novel. That was your warning, by the way, that I’m a head-over-heels fan of this series and it’s seriously colouring my critical gaze.ĭaniels does a great job clearing the first hurdle with a sequel: how to catch up new readers without forcing existing fans to sit through chapters of “as you know, Bob” exposition. So I pre-ordered Sovereign and, although moving into my very own house was a good distraction, waited eagerly for it to arrive days after its release (so far Chapters is beating Amazon at this pre-order game). With Dreadnought, Daniels fulfilled most of these requirements, plus she did it with a teenage trans lesbian protagonist. I tend to cite Vanessa Torline’s “#TrainFightTuesday” as my gold standard for what I’d like my superhero fiction to be: fast-paced and genre-savvy yet also cutting and compassionate. It turns out that this is a subgenre quite difficult to pull off, in terms of plot and characterization. I love the idea of superhero fiction, but most of the actual superhero novels I’ve read so far have been underwhelming at best. ![]() Spoilers for the first book but not this one, unless you think revealing that Graywytch is still a massive problem for Danny is a spoiler, in which case … oops. April Daniels might single-handedly be restoring my faith in superhero fiction. ![]()
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