Dire: Born

The Dire Saga, Book 1

By: Andrew Seiple

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

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.

©2015 Andrew Seiple (P)2018 Podium Publishing

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.

binged entire series

loved this whole series all the way thru
glad I randomly listened to the first part of it.

it's worth it.

enjoy.

Amazing

I never write reviews, but this book is completely awesome give it a try

Amazing story, but the performance didn’t mesh.

This is one of my favorite books. When I saw it had come to an audiobook. I was really excited. I love how audiobooks breathe life into all the characters in the story. however, I felt like the performer really did not do DIRE well.  they gave the doctor too much emotion too much tone, in the wrong direction, making her weak, tremulous, and uncertain, instead of confident, brash, and powerfully shouty. I don’t normally like too much sound engineering in my books, but this is one particular book, where, properly modulating and synthesizing, Dr. DIRE’s voice would’ve been a long way into making the performance much better. Still one of my favorite stories.

Superheroes are just Wrestlers

Tried to avoid spoilers but the second paragraph is a gray area on that.

Kayfabe is a wonderful way to put it. I do appreciate focusing on the "villain". After all, sometimes a good villain is just a hero that went too far. This book stands great on its own and I prefer it over the other books in the series.

I truly appreciate how Dire tries. Dire is a good person, sure, murder might be going too far but not in Dire's eyes. Dire is doing whatever is possible to protect those on her side and get the answers she needs. I definitely understand Dire's frustrations and can empathize which is always an amazing thing for a character, especially when you wouldn't go as far as them. I see the logic, I enjoy the character and I don't appreciate the fools in her way.