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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES! DC Icons continues with the first-ever YA origin story of superhero Black Canary, from the internationally bestselling author Alexandra Monir. In this thrilling novel, Dinah Lance's voice is her weapon. And in a near-future world where women have no rights, she won't hesitate to use everything she has--including her song--to fight back. Dinah Lance was eight years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear--not in her lifetime and not in Gotham City, taken over by the vicious, patriarchal Court of Owls. The sinister organization rules Gotham City as a dictatorship and has stripped women of everything--their right to work, to make music, to learn, to be free. Now seventeen, Dinah can't forget that haunting sound, and she's beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But singing is forbidden--a one-way route to a certain death sentence. Fighting to balance her father's desire to keep her safe, a blossoming romance with mysterious new student Oliver Queen, and her own need to help other women and girls rise up, Dinah wonders if her song will finally be heard. And will her voice be powerful enough to destroy the Court of Owls once and for all?
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5 primary booksDC Icons is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2018 with contributions by Marie Lu, Sarah J. Maas, and 2 others.
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Black Canary is my absolutely FAVORITE, so I'll tell you I shrieked when this one came out. And Monir does not disappoint. Badass as hell - Canary gets her DC novel and I am HERE FOR IT.
DNF @ 15%. Mehhhhhhh. I love black canary. She's one of my favorite DC heroines. But adolescent Dinah in a futuristic Gotham that oppresses women? No thanks.