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Publisher's Summary
No memory, no resources, no secret lair, and no time to find her feet: this is the story of a self-made villain, and her fall into strife. Fleeing from unknown enemies and an early death, she emerges into a city gone dark in the aftermath of a complete systems failure. Hounded by heroes, menaced by gangs, and helped by the most unlikely of allies, she claws her way up from weakness to strength and works to build a better future for those who deserve it.
To survive, she'll need strength to stand toe-to-toe against secretly supernatural foes, compassion to work with the dregs and outcasts of a broken society, and cunning to outwit intelligence beyond human kind.
The challenge is great…but she is Dire.
And Icon City will never be the same again.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-10-2018
Awesome superhero book with an interesting angle
Would recommend to all peeps who like a original story. Who are the evil master minds and who are the Heroes? Really liked this story and am looking forward to next installment
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- Rachel Moyer
- 17-10-2018
Awesome Supervillian book
Awesome book, my new favorite for Super Villains.
It's excellent. A girl wakes up with no memory but built to be a Super Villain. Dire refers to Dire's self in the third person, has an evil laugh and everything Dire builds tends to be in dark colors with lots of spikes. Dire isn't Evil, just pragmatic.
This is an alternate universe where Tesla completed more of his projects and about that time superpowers started popping up. Y2K coincided with a complete blackout.
This is Dire's story about trying to figure out who Dire is and protecting those Dire loves.
I bought this based on the strength of the Threadbare series and wasn't disappointed.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
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- Bryan Tobiason
- 15-11-2018
New Spin on an Old Genre
This was a step out of my normal reading. I'm a legal thriller, murder mystery type of guy. However I do on occasion enjoy some mild science fiction or fantasy. While this one was billed as a superhero-esq story reading the description it felt more like something I'd enjoy. Overall I was correct, it was an enjoyable book and for the first 80% I couldn't get enough. Finding excuses to listen and find out what was going on with Dire and her band of misfits. However the last bit just lost some charge for me and I feel that if it had wrapped up in a different way I'd give it five stars. The narrator was fantastic and the story unique. #GiveItAShot #DireRules #Sparky #HomelessEncampmentOnABeach #tagsgiving and #sweepstakes
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- Durid The Druid
- 15-11-2018
I followed this guy when he started in fanfiction
And now he's a professional that is even better. And best of all, even adubile now. :) Well worth it!
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-10-2018
More please.
It was a wonderful listen. The book is great and the narration especially is amazing as usual.
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- VJG
- 10-12-2018
A Kayfabe tale
anti-heroes are my favorite heroes and Dr Dire is a really likable, believable and entertaining one. look forward to seeing what she does next to bring justice to a broken world.
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- Francois
- 23-12-2018
Underwhelming
I decided to listen to this book because I finished the Threadbare series from the same author. This book was underwhelming. If you like apocalyptic gang wars, this might be something you would enjoy. Not my cup of tea! Nothing original in this book as far as the story goes. The characters are shallow and predictable. This book has none of the heart and humanity of the Threadbare series. I guess he saved all of that for teddy bears and left none for the characters in Dire: Born. I found it hard to empathize with the main character as she can only refer to herself in the third person. The other characters are too poorly developed to care about. If you want a quick story and don't mind the plot holes, it's an okay listen. The narrator does a good job of providing different voices for characters. I won't be continuing with this series, but other reviewers have enjoyed it. As I said, not my cup of tea.
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