Meg Cabot, best known for The Princess Diaries series, has put her unique YA spin on Black Canary with DC Publishing. Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance thinks that she has it all figured out. With her two best friends she’s going to win the battle of the bands and then join the Gotham City Junior Police academy so she can follow in her father’s footsteps. Dinah’s plans start to go off the rails when she discovers that she can cause things to break with her voice. Oh, and there’s a mysterious figure out to get her and her mom has a very secret past. Can Dinah make it through school, a battle of the bands, and not lose her friends in the process of becoming *gasp* a possible superhero?
Meg Cabot and Cara McGee are a great teamup and I’d love to see more from the two. Cabot’s voice is in tune with young adult readers, and Cara McGee matches the dialogue and characters in equal measure. For teen readers who love superheroes and comic book, (or those of us who are young at heart and just love comic books), Black Canary: Ignite is a delightful read.
Black Canary: Ignite is available October 29, 2019.
