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Zephyr V Kindle Edition

by Warren Hately (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
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"It’s a skillfully-written superhero fantasy resonant with emotion. Expect to feel your soul move as the swaggering narrator bears comic and often poignant witness to the vagaries of a life both bizarre and very like our own" --AA Attanasio, author of the Radix tetrad and The Dragon and the Unicorn series.

"I absolutely loved this book. The author is whip smart and dissects this genre like a surgeon" --Joe Gazzam, screenwriter, author of Uncaged.

"The book deconstructs the superhero in the most entertaining, cynical and interesting ways" --Michael Ivan Lowell, The Suns of Liberty series.

Zephyr is an ongoing series favorably compared to Alan Moore's Watchmen and similar classics. Like the comic books to which it owes a debt, Zephyr is episodic with an open narrative.

It's 2014 on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis rebuilt following widespread devastation in 1984. Superhumans are not only real, they're human. All too human, as Nietzsche would say.

Zephyr is an alt.superhero adventure influenced by postliterary writing and Sturgeon's law. The style is cynical, cinematic and systematically against standard expectations of the genre. Imagine if Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho was about costumed vigilantes rather than stockbrokers and you have half the idea.

Zephyr tells the story of a major, if somewhat jaded superhero in an alternate universe where New York City has been abandoned and the Beatles were a superhero team. Zephyr is a regular guy, but with powers, and it's easy to wonder if his life might have been better without them as supervillains and other problems that only superhumans can deal with derail his efforts handling life.

In Volume 5, Zephyr belatedly tracks down Loren aka Seeker to Atlantic City's grimy barrio and uncovers a sinister plot involving an addictive heroin-derivative that bestows super powers, inadvertently linked to Twilight's growing criminal empire. Meanwhile, masks across Atlantic City and the planet start dropping out of public life as British super Sting preaches spiritual Ascension in Afghanistan. Zephyr investigates as part of his search for the deadly and elusive Matrioshka, and as usual, finds more than he expects.
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    Zephyr
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00IQR9APK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (March 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3806 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 332 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Again a masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
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I have given 5 stars, and it fully deserves it. My main «negative» point is that the author tries too hard to imitate the style of Brad Easton Ellis in certain passages. In my opinion (we all have one, right?), Hatelys own style is fully capable of impressing the reader all by itself.

Zephyr is the best-written anti-hero I have ever encountered. I dislike him, and yet I want him to win (I know that Twilight is supposed to be the anti-hero), and I look forward to finding out if he really does.
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Gerald Barber
4.0 out of 5 stars Zephyr V
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2019
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Another great read in a series of great reads. Cynical, jaded, and starting to get over the hill Zephyr is and interesting and fun romp for a different kind of Superhero.
Read them all. You'll love them!!
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Whispyrn
5.0 out of 5 stars Just gets better.
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2014
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I stumbled across these novels while looking for superhero fiction, and I haven't looked back. I'm constantly catching snarky references to pop culture and most, if not all, get a giggle. This story just continues to evolve, and I can't wait to see what happens next.
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Mathias Kaastrup-Olsen
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2015
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Great series. Full power, non stop
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5.0 out of 5 stars Something different
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2014
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I loved this entire series. It's rare that you run across something different in any genre. This series is entertaining as hell, and full of guy humor. Don't buy it if you worry about laughing out loud when reading in public.
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alan from fl
4.0 out of 5 stars A guilty pleasure - very edgy but literate superhero fiction.
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018
Seriously flawed hero that always tried to do the right thing, as far as saving the world. As for his relationships, not so much...
I read the first book, initially shocked at the language and sexual situations. But somewhere along the line i got hooked. Zephyr reminds me of the Comedian from Watchmen, but with very different abilities and at least some moral hero compass. And the narration reminds me of Rohrschak's verbose and descriptive commentary on the corruption of society and the nature of evil.
Whew!!! A blast!
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5.0 out of 5 stars exactly what i thought it would be
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2018
i did not dislike anything, even the sometimes long "tirades" how all is screwed in our world.
i am a New Yorker. i feel right at home in zephyr's life.
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Koko
4.0 out of 5 stars A Mindblowing Epic of Action and mix of outrageous philosophies and POVs
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2014
A continuing adventure in various realities told from Zephyr's view.The only theoretical drawback is that one MUS have read the previous novels in the series to even hope to understand A fraction of what is going on.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A cracker
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2017
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Warren does it again with the continuing misadventures of everyone's favourite flawed hero, if you haven't read any of these then you are missing a treat
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carl neale
4.0 out of 5 stars Superhero soap opera at its best.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2018
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Pretty sure Mr Hately makes this stuff up as he goes along but I don't mind. It's wild, superhero soap opera at it's best and I can't get enough of it.
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Denny
3.0 out of 5 stars Massively let down by heavy-handed homophobia
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2014
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I really enjoyed this series, apart from one thing. The author has decided to just ram in paragraphs of raging homophobia at regular intervals. It doesn't advance the plot, it doesn't go anywhere, it's just ... there. It's cringe-inducing, totally unnecessary, and fairly horrible in its intensity sometimes, and for me it took this series down from an easy 5 star rating to barely scraping 3 stars.
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