Sovereign: Nemesis - Book Two [Paperback]

The highly anticipated sequel toDreadnought, featuring the most exciting new superheroes in decades. (Kirkus, starred review)

Only nine months after her debut as the superhero Dreadnought, Danny Tozer is already a scarred veteran. Protecting a city the size of New Port is a team-sized job and shes doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and its only going to get worse.

When she crosses a newly discovered billionaire supervillain, Dreadnought comes under attack from all quarters. From her troubled family life to her disintegrating friendship with Calamity, theres no lever too cruel for this villain to use against her.

She might be hard to kill, but there's more than one way to destroy a hero. Before the war is over, Dreadnought will be forced to confront parts of herself she never wanted to acknowledge.

And behind it all, an old enemy waits in the wings, ready to unleash a plot that will scar the world forever.In the vein of Perry Moores Hero, Sovereign is a YA tale of a trans superheroine and the sequel to Dreadnought.- The sequel to the recently released Dreadnought, which has generated a great deal of buzz, including reviews from PW, Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Locus.
- Sovereign is an #OwnVoices novel
- Trans issues are a hot-button topic in America today, and the subject of many recent YA novels (i.e., Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan and If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo)
- Superhero novels are also a popular subgenre in YA, from books like Bethany Frenettes Dark Star series to The Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn.
- April Daniels is a trans woman who is active in the LGBT community, with an active social media presence.Daniels doesnt just perfectly queer the capes, she delivers a book thats tightly packed with brilliantly rendered fights, nail-biting scenes of peril, emotional authenticity, and a perfect first kl£3