Things I Find While Shelving 
 I received a free ARC via netgalley, forgot about it, and wound up getting this out from the library...but the point is I did have an ARC at one point... 
 There is a common misconception among cis people that if they want to understand the trans experience they must try to imagine what it would be like if they had always felt like the gender they are not. A better way to grasp it would be to ask what if you knew your gender but everyone else insisted you were wrong? 
 I feel like Dreadnought illustrates that masterfully because the first thing that happens to Danny is she gets the body she always wanted in the first place, but that doesn't change everyone else's perception of her. Parents and friends continue to act under the assumption that Danny is a boy. So Danny has to deal with coming out after transitioning - magical though that transition may be - which is an interesting path to navigate and one I think Daniels handles very well. 
 Overall I really enjoyed Dreadnought. Some things were frustrating, but they were frustrating because that's what they are: Danny's parents, her best friend, one of the superheroes being trans exclusionary. It's a book full of super powers and impossible technology, but it is also so relatable and real. 
 And I also just really loved it because superheroes.