“Monir deftly balances familiarity for DC fans and accessibility for new readers, blending superhero origin with coming-of-age tale in an excellent book for fans of comics and dystopian fiction, as well as reluctant readers.”- School Library Journal PRAISE FOR BLACK CANARY: BREAKING SILENCE IO9, “December’s New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books Just Might Help You End 2020 on a Good Note”
PopSugar, “Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in December”īrit + Co, “13 Page Turners for the Book Lovers on Your List” Tor.com, “8 Amazing Novels about Superheroes” , “16 Books for Everyone on Your List, According to Book Influencers” And will her voice be powerful enough to destroy the Court of Owls once and for all? 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. But singing is forbidden–a one-way route to a certain death sentence. 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 ticket to Arkham Asylum. 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. 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.
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.ĭinah Lance was eight years old when she overheard the impossible: the sound of a girl singing. DC Icons continues with the first-ever YA origin story of superhero Black Canary, from the internationally bestselling author Alexandra Monir.
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