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Zephyr I eBook Warren Hately

This book seems to be pretty heavily promoted on Amazon - but I heartily suggest before you consider buying you use the Look Inside feature.

Straight away you plunge into a stream of consciousness of a character busily swearing, checking out other characters' breasts and butts, and name checking celebrities in a fairly implausible way - "Eric Clapton goes past and high fives me and then immediately makes a face aghast like he mistook me for someone else".

The story is a superhero one - but set in a more real world environment. How would our world react if superheroes really existed? And what would those heroes be like in a world which would fete them as celebrities, even with their personality flaws?

It all reads like some weird wish fulfillment fantasy - and not a pleasant one at that. For example, early on, the hero uses a static electricity power to make the nipples of girls at a party harden. Really.

Now if this is your kind of thing, then hey, the look inside will prepare you for it. If that's for you, go for it. It wasn't for me.

Throw in the cover looking like it's riffing off the far superior Zenith comic book and the whole thing is a package that I wish I'd left on the shelf.


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Zephyr I eBook Warren Hately Reviews

As a big fan of superheroes Zephyr intrigued me. I found the well developed backstory intriguing and the world complex but understandable. Zephy is a hero but not the most likable of fellows. His power is incredible but not so much that his wins are a foregone conclusion. After I finished book one i bought the other 5 in the series immediately.
I really enjoyed this and can't wait to read the rest of them. Zephyr follows a irreverently hilarious superhero on the wild ride that is his life. The plot takes a "What can possibly happen to our protagonist today" approach and it works. The erratic love/hate relationship you have with the hero, and the hero has with himself, is very well written by Mr. Hatley. That is a sincere compliment since it's written in the first person, which can sometimes break an otherwise good book. It took a minute to get used to the erratic nature of Zephyr that's conveyed in the writing, but then I was hooked. It's got sex, drugs, and The Beatles. What else can you ask for.
I collect super hero fiction like a kid with baseball cards. From the golden child of the canon, the Wild Card books, to the more standard staples like Just and Wearing the Cape all the way to fringier delights like Velveteen Vs and Liminal People I grab it when I find it and add it to my digital museum of four color prose. I found Zephyr through an anthology of short stories and the entry was enough to peak my curiosity. I scooped up the first three volumes and tucked them away. After a few months I found a lull in my reading schedule and decided to give it a shot.
Man, it blew my mind. Not only the real world cult of personality and fame culture Hately built up around supers but also the sheer magnificence of the ever so slightly altered world the story is told in and the balls it took to create it. Barack Obama as a Muslim peace ambassador uniting his faith and allying with America against Zionist terrorists? A mentally unhinged Sascha Baron Cohen who can only use his super powers in his Ali G persona? John Lennon as the worlds Dr. Doom? Yoko Ono as the corrupting demoness who made him that way? Tony Danza as the lead in Rocky? The are so many subtle yet brilliant liberties that Hately takes with reality that makes his world pop as a unique, fun, unpredictable sand box in which he hatches super human adventures on par with anything else on the market. I can't wait to devour the rest of the series.
I don't give many one star reviews as I'm pretty choosy. I somehow got sucked into buying this one as the premise sounded interesting.
Unfortunately, it just doesn't sing to me. The main character is unlikable and appears to have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
The story just lurches from one unfortunate encounter to the next. It's a mess.
Zephyr is one of, if not the, best superhero books I've read in the past five years. It's not going to be for everyone but it is definitely up my alley and has a smart Transmetropolitan-style feel which combines the absolutely insane with the mundane in a way that feels both subversive as well as cool.

The book stars Zephyr, the world's perhaps 3rd or 4th most famous heroes. He's a big deal, don't get me wrong, and plugged into the world's celebrity culture. However, he's jaded, cynical, and depressed. He also has a terrible home life with a wife who has come to view his superheroism with less pride and more understated shame.

This definitely feels like an adult Warren Ellis-esque comic with Zephyr's world being one where superheroes are stalked by the paparazzi, get in sex scandals, and are genuinely more likely to embarrass themselves than inspire you. Despite this, they live in a world with such Silver Age antics as renegade Greek God robots and banks which uproot themselves to attack people.

I happen to like Zephyr, himself, because despite the fact his every other thought is about how much he dislikes the people around him--he's a surprisingly heroic guy. He spends his days going out into society and rescuing them from horrific danger for almost no reward. You actually manage to feel bad for a world-famous guy with his own toy deal because he gets no respect at home despite all the lives he saves.

The world-building really manages to sell this is our planet but gone in a very odd direction. A lot of the changes don't make much sense in a literal way but underscore how just BIZARRE this planet and it's life is. For example, the star of the movie Troy and one of Hollywood's top buff A-list actors is Macaulay Culkin (of Home Alone fame).

Some readers may be put off by the fact there's a subplot involving Zephyr's pre-teen daughter being expelled from an all-girl's school for her homosexuality (which her mother is decidedly not supporting her through). Also, the fact Zephyr has a lesbian pair of mothers but is deeply uncomfortable with the idea anyone thinking he's gay himself. It's the kind of thing which many readers may not find entertaining but isn't played for laughs. Zephyr, himself, is supportive of his daughter even though he's flawed. This is a bizarre R-rated superhero novel with lots of sex, oddball encounters, and cool. I think people who like that sort of thing will love this book. I know I did.
This book seems to be pretty heavily promoted on - but I heartily suggest before you consider buying you use the Look Inside feature.

Straight away you plunge into a stream of consciousness of a character busily swearing, checking out other characters' breasts and butts, and name checking celebrities in a fairly implausible way - "Eric Clapton goes past and high fives me and then immediately makes a face aghast like he mistook me for someone else".

The story is a superhero one - but set in a more real world environment. How would our world react if superheroes really existed? And what would those heroes be like in a world which would fete them as celebrities, even with their personality flaws?

It all reads like some weird wish fulfillment fantasy - and not a pleasant one at that. For example, early on, the hero uses a static electricity power to make the nipples of girls at a party harden. Really.

Now if this is your kind of thing, then hey, the look inside will prepare you for it. If that's for you, go for it. It wasn't for me.

Throw in the cover looking like it's riffing off the far superior Zenith comic book and the whole thing is a package that I wish I'd left on the shelf.