DIRE : TIME (The Dire Saga Book 3) Kindle Edition

I've loved the series so far, and DIRE : TIME was great for the most part as well, but the ending just didn't work for me. It was confusing, to the point where I'm not even really sure what happened, but I got the overall feeling that it was... unfair, maybe? Unjustified? I'm trying not to spoil things too much here, but my point is that the ending took a completely different turn than I was expecting, and it made me leave on a sour note.

Good cess to me, I started reading Andrew Seiple's Dire series after it was already five books deep. If I'd been reading these suckers as they were released, I would've had a big problem with how this third book ended. But because I could dive straight into Book 4, what would otherwise have been a messed-up ending served to whet my appetite even more.Some ***PLOT SPOILERS!!*** now.Comes a time when every lead super-duper must dabble in time travel. And it's Doctor Dire's turn. Dire: Time opens with our badass science-villain launching what looks to be an assault on Icon City but is, instead, a recon mission to probe the full extent of the Crusader's powers, the Crusader being the Superman avatar in Seiple's Teslaverse. Dire's plan was going pretty smooth until Timetripper, the peskiest thorn in Dire's side and perhaps the most bumbling time traveler ever in all of comicsverse, drops in and catapults Dire back to World War II, to September 13, 1942. Which leaves her four minions - but, really, friends - fending for themselves and open to attack from all manner of vengeful heroes and a malevolent A.I. entity.Dire: Time is another wild ride from Andrew Seiple. This time, Dire, stuck in the past, must tangle with Nazi robots and a fickle trickster god. She locks horns with a secret society or two and briefly meets Tesla, father of the modern age himself. Yeah, her dance card in 1942 is pretty full.It's been a while since I heard tell of the Tzadikim Nistarim, and Seiple manages to incorporate that old folk tale in his story. The Tzadikim Nistarim, as you know, are the hidden saints of Jewish Lore: 36 saintly men and women who walk the earth, unaware of their goodness, and who replenish God's faith in humanity and keep him from despairing and obliterating the world because of man's wickedness.Thru all the crazy sh-- that the writer puts her thru, Dire remains unbowed. She also remains endearing, thanks to her playfulness and to the fact that she's more of an anti-hero, really, than a straight-up villain. I mean, c'mon, Dire is fiercely loyal to her friends. She tries so hard not to off people. She wants only what's best for the world, and, like all driven geniuses, she thinks no one can improve the world as much as she. Dire doesn't want to take over the world. She just may have to.Seiple doesn't neglect the tics that make Dire so engaging, whether it's the self-inflicted brain damage that compels her to refer to herself in the third person to her love of kayfabe. I got a chuckle out of the scene in which Dire confesses she has an app that calculates the best lighting and the best optimal stance for when she's in front of the media's cameras. All part of kayfabe.Most importantly, we finally learn Dire's origin and what the acronym D.I.R.E. stands for. This reveal is all part of the demented third act that, again, if you'd read it when it was newly released, would've made you hopping mad. Anyway, in whatever temporal tense she's trapped in, Dire is a force to be reckoned with. I had a blast reading this one, just like I had a blast reading the first two Dire novels. So on to the fourth one. Going by how this one ended, I have no friggin' clue where the story's going. And that's kind of great.

Andrew Seiple's Dire Saga is easily my favorite ongoing collection of written fiction, beating out The Dresden Files for consistency and riveting prose. Doctor Dire is a genius as is rarely portrayed in fiction and an unstoppable juggernaught whose victories nonetheless never fail to entertain.That said...The ending of DIRE: TIME is considerably more grim and less positive than previous iterations in the series, but handled, overall, well. I can't say as much for the B-plot. I don't read the Dire Saga for people scrabbling to survive by the skin of their teeth-I read it for Dire kicking ass and always having the answer. I can get the former anywhere I want, the faces on the characters be damned, but I can only get more Dire in one place.It would be five stars if not for the B-plot. The A-plot gets an A. The B-plot gets a D-and D, in this case, is not for Dire.

I've loved the Dire series, and for like 95% of this book I loved it...but that ending, I'm just not sure how I feel about it, i mean it may not be the end of the world like it seems based on the big twist thrown in at the end but man I'm going to be series worried about the next book.

I've really come to love the Dire Saga, especially the main character herself Dire. That being said, while I enjoyed 95% of this book immensely, the last 5% has left a horrible taste in my mouth. If you're this far into the series, you should read this one as well, since it is a pretty good read and can be seen as the end of a trilogy. But keep in mind Andrew pulls a plot twist at the very end you're going to feel one of two ways about, if the reviews are any indication. You'll either be sad, but interested in where the story will go from here. Or like me, angry and confused at Andrews choice of story progression. To be fair, it does fit his style, and he could play it off amazingly well with the future books, but personally I have fears it just ruined the series for me with any new work he puts out. Time will tell I guess.

I started following the author with Dire Worm (which was a really good, but sadly unfinished fanfiction). The movement into the Teslaverse was interesting and the first book was good. The second was OK and this one was kinda "Meh". What really bugged me was not the twist at the end, but instead the gradual move from Dire actually being clever (the fight with Armsmaster and the aftermath of the fight with Saint) to the author portraying Dire as being clever but most of the "cleverness" just the author hand-waving and call it clever.One of the big conflicts into this character is the necessity to have them appear to be "Bad" while actually being an antihero. This was handled pretty well in Worm/first book (lethality/practicality over "Hero" ethics) but seems to get somewhat bungled in recent works (really, no better way to deal with corruption in the city administration? Picking a really hard fight for almost no reason?). Perhaps it was just that Worm was a much darker setting, so it was much easier to write a good "villain".I will keep reading, but I really hope the author can get closer to the roots of what made the original character interesting.

Loved both previous books and the authors worm crossover. Not spoiling the book but the ending/plot twist ruined everything. Even though the crossover work hinted at this, having it actually happen took all the joy out of the series. Thanks for everything before this.

The series was great up until this point, and, really, it's still a good book until you hit the last section where things fall apart.What starts as fun time travel romp becomes a joke, the ending successfully ending my interest in both the series and the author. It is so frustrating that I have regrets buying the previous novels, and if I were to review them I wouldn't be able to do so fairly, as they are heavily compromised by this tale. It's hard to detail why without delving into spoilers, but I felt very let down by it. It could have been so much more.

This book is a four or a five star book.Until the last chapter.The last chapter brings the entire thing to painful stop that really does kill my interest in continuing on in the series.It is hard to explain without ruining the ending, but unless the author pulls something amazing out of their behind (and seriously undoes a few choices) I can't imagine reading anything more from this series.The first one was great, the second one was pretty good as well. Heck, this book actually explains away some of the oddities of the second book.But that last chapter... it's like watching somebody climb to the top of a Mountain of Awesome... and then watching them Homer Simpson fall down hitting every rock along the way."D'oh"

I'm really unhappy with the ending, which just goes to show how much I'm invested in some of the characters, the series so far has been fantastic, and I am really looking forward to how it turns out. even if I am pretty torn up about the ending...

Sadly I am totally drunk, otherwise I would write a review that would make you sell your kidney just so you could buy this book.Luckily spell checker has my back , so I can say, I liked this, and Nawt feel like a fool in two days time when I re-read this.

Easily the best in the series. We see Dire at her best, now that she's finally hit her stride as a villain and this story both brings the arc to an end while leaving things open for an entirely new story.