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Sovereign

By: April Daniels
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
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The highly anticipated sequel to Dreadnought, featuring "the most exciting new superheroes in decades." (Kirkus)

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-size job, and she's doing it alone. Between her newfound celebrity and her demanding cape duties, Dreadnought is stretched thin, and it's 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, there's 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.

©2017 April Daniels (P)2017 Audible, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Paranormal Funny Superhero

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I couldn’t possible write a review to describe how I feel about this book. It is truly spectacular. Daniels has absolutely knocked it out the park and created a beautiful sequel to “dreadnaught”.

I myself am a trans woman and it warms my heart to have a character I can connect with so deeply. The fiction serves as a most perfect form of escapism.

The emotional undertones and character details draw you in and Daniels is not afraid of tugging on the lattice of your heart to make you feel emotions like no other piece of literature.

I cannot tell you what this book means to me, and I eagerly await the conclusion to the nemesis trilogy.

A Must Read

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I was so happy to find that there was a sequel to Dreadnaught. More character expansion. More characters. More of everything that made the first one amazing. Well written and expertly performed.

An amazing Sequel

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Sovereign is the second book in April Daniels' Nemesis series, coming on the heels of the first book, Dreadnought. I picked this up 2 days after finishing the first one. After reading Sovereign I've realised a bit more what I've enjoyed from this series.

Dreadnought had great emotional scenes, and iconic moments that etched themselves in my brain. Dani is a great character who I wanted to see more of.

Sovereign didn't quite have that level for me. But I still love this. Sovereign was pure joy to read. April Daniels has really improved on writing action scenes and makes them so fun and engaging. The villain in Sovereign is a perfect blend of silly and threatening to make me love him. Dani is still a great character who has seen some change since the last book, I like getting to know her again and learn more of her.

There's some great comedy sprinkled throughout. It doesn't ruin any emotional scenes with being forced in awkwardly. I love the sense of humour here.

Once the story starts going with its intrigue and conflicts, it was very good at getting me engaged. It has alot of legal talk, but the author manages to get me as invested in this as the physical fighting.

I can't bring myself to give this a 5/5 because it carries over my biggest gripe with Dreadnought. It references off-screen events that informs character motivations and actions and lacks emotional weight. In Dreadnought this made me just not care about Dani's school life, she's meant to have one good friend but he has barely any involvement until turning out to be a douche, so it doesn't come off as much of a betrayal as Dani says it feels like. School is meant to have had a big part in shaping Dani but most scenes there are just nothing. In Sovereign I get the same feeling, Dani's relationships for the most part have broken down in between books, I would have rather have read this happen over time rather than just be told "oh Dani hasn't talked to Sarah since the last book." Also, a new hero called Kinetiq is introduced who Dani met off-screen. They have conflict that, again, happened off-screen, that factors into this story, but I felt no investment in, so any time it was brought up I only felt apathy.

The first half of this book felt mostly like everyone being hardasses towards Dani (apart from her lawyer/publicist. She's a good bean throughout). It felt just mean at times. The first book did have Dani go through some stuff, but it was better paced in my opinion and had much more moments of levity throughout. Not to say that the first half is terrible; I think the later parts work near perfect for me and makes the first half's issues more obvious for me.

Honestly, Kinetiq just felt unnecessarily aggressive most of the time. The majority of their interactions with Dani is them getting mad at her and being preachy. There's potential with Kinetiq: learning some their history and hearing them talk when not mad about something is actually enjoyable. I just wish that for the amount of time Kinetiq appears, they had better writing.

I have mixed feelings with how some plot lines are resolved. There's a character I won't name for spoilers, but they go through some existential stuff and brings some other people into question. Only to come back at the end and say "everything is cool now. I'll TTYL. Gotta go make babies." Dani's conflict with her parents doesn't really feel resolved, I feel like it needed something more. On the plus side, it does get an equally cute and funny moment with Doc Impossible and Dani.

This is a side comment, but it mentions Dani being in basically a Kaiju fight, which is epic, and hearing them talk about it makes me feel like this could have been its own book.

The narrator is the same as the first book. Still good, but there's still Sarah's ex with the annoying voice.

So, I really liked Sovereign. I loved reading it. Dreadnought felt quite emotional, but Sovereign is great. It is wonderful in similar and different ways. While I do have criticisms, they weren't ever enough to make me regret my purchase. Dreadnought got me interested, but Sovereign has kept me a fan. I am very eager to read the 3rd book, which as of posting this review, is still in development.

Content warning for torture scenes and transphobia. The transphobia isn't as prevalent as with Dreadnought, I didn't notice any slurs being used, only deadnaming and purposeful mis-gendering.

A good sequel, but for different reasons

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I do love these books , very well written and narrated

I like how Danny's relationships with the Doc and Calamity develop and grow in this book . I also like how how all the characters are vulnerable in their way .
Greywitch's downfall was poetic justice in the way it happened.
I will definitely be keeping an eye out for any more books April Daniels writes .
Natasha Soudek narration was perfect again in my view

Great 2nd book in the series

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I really enjoyed this fantastic sequel in all kinds of ways, so wonderful to see such great and well written representations.

Fantastic!

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