I received a free digital copy from the author/publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review


Daniel Tozer has a secret. She wants to be Danielle Tozer but is finding it hard to come out to her family about being transgender. When Danny is in the vicinity of a superhero fight and tries to help top superhero Dreadnought as he lies dying, Dreadnought passes on his powers to Danny. The powers make Danny who she wanted to be and is suddenly a girl in body and mind. Now Danny has to deal with revealing her new self to friends and family, as well as having some really cool but deadly superhero powers.

I had heard really good things about this book so was a bit nervous going in to it that I wouldn’t like it. But oh my god, this was amazing! I feel like there was so much in this story to appeal to everyone from really great LGBT issues, women’s issues and on top of all of that, a superhero story. I found Danny’s transformation from girl with a boy’s body to girl with a girl’s body really, really interesting from how she looked slightly unrealistically beautiful because Danny had always looked at the photoshopped images of girls in advertisements and TV to how she was suddenly a lot more self conscious of her body from the way she held her books to her chest to cover her breasts, to suddenly not feeling like she should eat the second piece of pizza because that’s not what a girl would do (except me, I would totally eat that second slice plus a third and fourth).

Danny has to deal with a lot of homophobia after coming out but also a lot of sexism such as how her friend David suddenly feels he has the right to look at her and date her because she’s physically female and throws back a lot of terrible abuse after being rejected. I thought this was all told in a really, really great way and so many issues were brought to light i a really subtly but powerful way,

Asides from the LGBT aspect of the story, the story itself is just a really great superhero story that really made me want to see it in TV or movie form. We have a team of supercool heroes, as well as a cool lair and laboratory and all sorts of gadgets and suits. I enjoyed how the superhero story played out, almost Kickass style with Calamity and Danny and the fight scenes were so great, I was on the edge of my seat reading them.

i also let out an audible cheer when Danny finally took on Dreadnought’s colours!

I 100% recommend this book and I’m so glad this was my first 5-star read for 2017 because it was so good. I’m just sad i have to wait ages now for the next instalment. I think this is a book I will be buying in physical form so I can make all my friends and sibling read it!