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DIRE BORN The Dire Saga Book 1 eBook Andrew Seiple Andrew Halbrooks Beth Lyons

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DIRE BORN The Dire Saga Book 1 eBook Andrew Seiple Andrew Halbrooks Beth Lyons

I am all in on Andrew Seiple's Teslaverse, and it's because of his stories about Dire, a science-villain whose brain damage compels her to refer to herself in the third person. Dire - her only name - has to be one of the most engaging supervillains ever thought up. Factor in, too, that Seiple's worldbuilding hinges on Nikola Tesla's exerting a more comprehensive influence on the world - for instance, all super powers reportedly stem from an explosive Tesla experiment back in 1908 - and what we get is a refreshing, alternative take on the superhero.

I am two books in in the Dire saga, and so far I'm in the dark with regards to her origin. Dire: Born begins the story in medias res, with our girl fleeing from faceless assassins, having just ten minutes ago awoken in an automated surgical chair, her scalp stitched up, her head pounding, her secret lair compromised. Ducking bullets, racing down storm sewers and eventually out a spill pipe that pours her into the bottom of a pier, Dire staggers into a homeless shanty town on the beach. That's the start of this one.

Other books have pulled it off, prose that delivers a page-turning tale as told thru the supervillain's perspective. My two most shining for instances are Jim Bernheimer's Confessions of a D-List Supervillain and Drew Hayes' Forging Hephaestus (Villains' Code Book 1). I also liked Rafael Chandler's The Astounding Antagonists. Dire easily takes a place at the table.

No use analyzing Dire. Just love her already. It's that old, familiar case of the villain believing with utter conviction that she's the hero of the narrative, that she's doing the right thing, that she's saving the world. And because it's Dire narrating in first person, we get to really dive into the underpinnings of her motivations. Her world is populated by untrustworthy heroes and laws that marginalize the exploited and the disadvantaged more so than they protect or enable them. Dire's power set lies in the area of engineering. She's a supergenius with a strong streak of naiveté. Fresh off her unsolicited brain surgery, she's like a kid who has to learn social cues and pop culture and such. She right away picks up on the potential edge in presenting a convincing kayfabe. Kayfabe, as you know, is "the art of controlling and shaping the narrative," of selling a story so well that folks get sucked in, never mind that they know it's all bullsh--. Kayfabe, in wrestling context, means "staying in character." Appropriately, Dire finds out about kayfabe by being shown a wrestling show on the tube.

Dire is guarded and blunt. She's a supergenius who can invent and adapt at the drop of a hat, and, in her power armor, she speaks all in CAPS. But she comes off like the underdog. The rookie villain. I love the relationships she builds with those that took her in, and how what she has to offer them gradually inserts her as a leader in their community. Shanty town is often embattled, often short on food and meds and hot water and such. There's an uneasy truce with the neighboring gang, and that's only because shanty town has a former costume living in it - and dude is old and on a wheelchair. Read Dire: Born to see how things progress, how things come to a boil with that gang and how Dire, in stepping in, begins to make friends and influence people. In her eyes and yours and mine, her actions define her as a hero. The do-gooding costumes and the agents of MRB (Metahuman Resource Bureau) see it another way.

Andrew Seiple hurtles like a bullet to the top of my list of favorite authors. His character work invests you not only in Dire but in her supporting cast. And because Seiple doesn't write fairy tales for kids, things occasionally go from bad to worse for our guys, and you feel awful for them. Back to the worldbuilding: Icon City is almost like another side character, it's colorful enough. Icon City runs on Tesla's broadcast-energy network and boasts "more costumes per square mile than the rest of the east coast combined." I hope, in future volumes, Seiple explores more of Icon City's chromatic history.

When she springs into action Dire is a badass, a fierce combatant, a devious strategist, and an intuitive inventor. She's a blend of Doctor Doom, Iron Man, and, uh, Dory from Finding Nemo. Keep in mind that she's doing all this while a victim of a cataclysmic memory wipe. The book ends with the mystery of Dire still very much intact. But there's enough of her that the reader comes to know and to like very much. I love that at times she can't help but fall into campy villain behavior, like the random cackling or her decorating one of her gizmos with spikes and an ominous skull face (which she thinks is cute) and then getting offended when people call her out for doing campy villain stuff. And don't fret, dear reader, the campy stuff doesn't at all undermine the drama or propulsion of the narrative. It's just a neat side flourish. Anyway, I look forward to reading further stories in the Teslaverse. By the way, Volume 2 of the Dire saga, DIRE : SEED (The Dire Saga Book 2), is as dope a read as this first one.


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DIRE BORN The Dire Saga Book 1 eBook Andrew Seiple Andrew Halbrooks Beth Lyons Reviews

This is an origin story which throws you right in the middle of things. At first readers are thrown into a mess of action that they don't understand. Who is Dire, Why are people trying to kill her, what is going on?

These questions are slowly hinted upon as the story progresses. But more important than the backstory of the main character, is her slow development into a person of increased purpose and responsibility and her ties to the other characters around her. Slowly we learn more about this world where superpowers exist as a normal facet of life. But it becomes quickly apparent that just like the world we live in, the Teslaverse is not a paradise and there are no end to the injustices around that mix in with the good. We see these injustices (which are relevent to our world as well) from a fresh set of eyes through Dire, and it makes them that much more ugly because of this. Though the world presented here is dark, that darkness isn't all consuming or opressive feeling. There are many light hearted moments and humor sprinkled through as well, even when things are at their worst. The story has a lot of heart

Another thing I liked about this story which slowly crept up on me, was that the characters all seem to have varied dialogue. I found myself giving them different voices in my head as I read and they all felt like separate people with their own unique hangups.

I don't mean to imply that everything about this story is perfect. Though the major plotlines were tied up, the ending was a bit abrupt feeling. And I felt like the Author could have done a bit more to explain the details surrounding the cause of the big power outage. And some of the action segments seemed to go on longer than I would have liked. But any faults I found were more than made up for by how engrossing the story was.

I recommend giving this story a try.
A superhero book about a lady called Dire who wakes up with no memories, some supervillain tech, and a video message from her past self saying that she's erased her own memory for reasons that Dire doesn't get to know because before she finishes watching it, a bunch of assassins come for her. She proceeds to hide out in a homeless shantytown and befriend the people there while dealing with the local (really terrifying and brutal) gangs and trying to figure out her past.

It's simultaneously really dark and violent, really witty and hilarious, and really fundamentally hopeful and optimistic.

Also, Dire is literally incapable of not speaking in the third person and keeps doing campy supervillain things like cackling and building power armor covered in a skull and spikes, and then getting personally offended when people are like 'Wow, that's campy supervillain stuff!' because no, of course the angry skull on the spike collar is adorable. But at the same time there's a good deal of, like. Murder and much, much worse and what you'd expect to see when living in a homeless shantytown in a gang-infested town in a world where superpowers exist.

This is shockingly sympathetic the story of how Doctor Dire decides to take over the world.
I am all in on Andrew Seiple's Teslaverse, and it's because of his stories about Dire, a science-villain whose brain damage compels her to refer to herself in the third person. Dire - her only name - has to be one of the most engaging supervillains ever thought up. Factor in, too, that Seiple's worldbuilding hinges on Nikola Tesla's exerting a more comprehensive influence on the world - for instance, all super powers reportedly stem from an explosive Tesla experiment back in 1908 - and what we get is a refreshing, alternative take on the superhero.

I am two books in in the Dire saga, and so far I'm in the dark with regards to her origin. Dire Born begins the story in medias res, with our girl fleeing from faceless assassins, having just ten minutes ago awoken in an automated surgical chair, her scalp stitched up, her head pounding, her secret lair compromised. Ducking bullets, racing down storm sewers and eventually out a spill pipe that pours her into the bottom of a pier, Dire staggers into a homeless shanty town on the beach. That's the start of this one.

Other books have pulled it off, prose that delivers a page-turning tale as told thru the supervillain's perspective. My two most shining for instances are Jim Bernheimer's Confessions of a D-List Supervillain and Drew Hayes' Forging Hephaestus (Villains' Code Book 1). I also liked Rafael Chandler's The Astounding Antagonists. Dire easily takes a place at the table.

No use analyzing Dire. Just love her already. It's that old, familiar case of the villain believing with utter conviction that she's the hero of the narrative, that she's doing the right thing, that she's saving the world. And because it's Dire narrating in first person, we get to really dive into the underpinnings of her motivations. Her world is populated by untrustworthy heroes and laws that marginalize the exploited and the disadvantaged more so than they protect or enable them. Dire's power set lies in the area of engineering. She's a supergenius with a strong streak of naiveté. Fresh off her unsolicited brain surgery, she's like a kid who has to learn social cues and pop culture and such. She right away picks up on the potential edge in presenting a convincing kayfabe. Kayfabe, as you know, is "the art of controlling and shaping the narrative," of selling a story so well that folks get sucked in, never mind that they know it's all bullsh--. Kayfabe, in wrestling context, means "staying in character." Appropriately, Dire finds out about kayfabe by being shown a wrestling show on the tube.

Dire is guarded and blunt. She's a supergenius who can invent and adapt at the drop of a hat, and, in her power armor, she speaks all in CAPS. But she comes off like the underdog. The rookie villain. I love the relationships she builds with those that took her in, and how what she has to offer them gradually inserts her as a leader in their community. Shanty town is often embattled, often short on food and meds and hot water and such. There's an uneasy truce with the neighboring gang, and that's only because shanty town has a former costume living in it - and dude is old and on a wheelchair. Read Dire Born to see how things progress, how things come to a boil with that gang and how Dire, in stepping in, begins to make friends and influence people. In her eyes and yours and mine, her actions define her as a hero. The do-gooding costumes and the agents of MRB (Metahuman Resource Bureau) see it another way.

Andrew Seiple hurtles like a bullet to the top of my list of favorite authors. His character work invests you not only in Dire but in her supporting cast. And because Seiple doesn't write fairy tales for kids, things occasionally go from bad to worse for our guys, and you feel awful for them. Back to the worldbuilding Icon City is almost like another side character, it's colorful enough. Icon City runs on Tesla's broadcast-energy network and boasts "more costumes per square mile than the rest of the east coast combined." I hope, in future volumes, Seiple explores more of Icon City's chromatic history.

When she springs into action Dire is a badass, a fierce combatant, a devious strategist, and an intuitive inventor. She's a blend of Doctor Doom, Iron Man, and, uh, Dory from Finding Nemo. Keep in mind that she's doing all this while a victim of a cataclysmic memory wipe. The book ends with the mystery of Dire still very much intact. But there's enough of her that the reader comes to know and to like very much. I love that at times she can't help but fall into campy villain behavior, like the random cackling or her decorating one of her gizmos with spikes and an ominous skull face (which she thinks is cute) and then getting offended when people call her out for doing campy villain stuff. And don't fret, dear reader, the campy stuff doesn't at all undermine the drama or propulsion of the narrative. It's just a neat side flourish. Anyway, I look forward to reading further stories in the Teslaverse. By the way, Volume 2 of the Dire saga, DIRE SEED (The Dire Saga Book 2), is as dope a read as this first one.