This One is Worth the Money

The performances are second to none. The story compelling. You need to know why everyone has disappeared. You care about the characters. I have listened to them all except the last one. This would make an incredible miniseries. I'd say better than the stand.

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What to expect?

A little slow at first. One has a tendency to think of 100s of scenarios as the story tries to slowly unfold. Gets better. Crude where it needs to. Touches a full deck of life circumstances. Just seems quite drug out for a storyline that can be made in a tenth the length. Overall, i guve it a thumbs up.

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OMG… OMFG… This will keep you up at night

The book has me on edge everyday, terrifyingggg!! And so good. Every scene captivates you.

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Very interesting, well narrated!

Enjoyed the first book , can’t wait to find out wtf is going on! Definitely recommend this book.

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Very well done

While there are a few performances that leave a lot too be desired in all decent work and I do like that while some of the preformers aren't as good. The next chapter you get someone else so it wasn't 20 hours of the same person.

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Looking forward to season 2!

I liked the use of different sets of characters to move the story forward. The writing skills, especially dialogue & and monolog, could be improved to avoid taking readers out of the story, into critiquing words, tone, voice, and such. The different narrators helped to not confuse characters sets.
It's a great apocalyptic story and I'm looking forward to season 2.

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if you like the stand and or lost..this is good

if you like the stand and or lost then this is pretty good. mutliole voices make it more like a TV show then a book.

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A neat character/episodic tale

Mashup of horror/ survival/ fantasy. Some of the narrators/ characters were cringy but that's part of the package. One of those tales that gives you pieces and the not knowing is what creates the mystery. It also helps hide some bad writing. Worth a listen for a different style of apocalypse.

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Comparisons To ABC's 'Lost' Are Legit

Unfortunately, that assessment includes both the GOOD and the BAD. Sean Platt and David Wright build a story around an array of complex characters with fascinating backgrounds (including an escaped prisoner and a serial killer) and introduce example after example of WTF events that imply very cool potential plotlines (resembling seasons 1-3 of that show). Like the TV Program, however, they drop the ball with baffling plot progression elements (the chapters from the Point-Of-View of abandoned 8-year-old 'Luca Harding', for example, become a weird combination of juvenile, metaphysical, and confusing). Dream sequences, man-eating monsters (Zombie Aliens?), psychic emanations, and philosophical/sexual tension arguments alternate with over-the-top violence and actual rape to distract from truly effective spinetingling tension-filled horror sequences [e.g. listening to friends being butchered over walkie-talkies while in hiding and hearing the eerily clicking creatures getting closer ("Oh F*ck.. they heard us..")]. This book could have been brilliant.
*sigh*

The cast of readers for the various first-person perspective story entries is likewise hit & miss. Some narrators are spectacular, others are "adequate", and still others are execrable. To be certain, variability is to be expected in *any* compendium like this.. but Podium Audio Inc. could have cast this project better.

Will I personally be moving on to seasons Two-plus of the 'Yesterday's Gone' series?
Pass.
This 6/10-star production was an entertaining distraction for a couple of quiet afternoons as a 'Plus' selection.. but your Credit is spent better elsewhere should they ask for one.

[NOTE: R.C. Bray's perfectly-paced deadpan delivery of horrifyingly gory/graphic text cements his place as a Top 5 professional narrator in my estimation]

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On Second Listen...

Decided to give this another listen, and it isn't the worst written or performed thing I've digested, because it isn't even interesting enough to be that bad.


Main Character, Luka, has chapters that are the worst written, in a terrible attempt at deep narrative, that, when combined with the creepy children's book narration, come across as an assault on the ears and mind.

Boricio is the only decently written character and narrator (besides the esteemed RC Bray), but the writers ruin that quickly by filling every hole in the narrative with his catch phrase, so you hear it over and over and over until it means nothing.

Most of the writing is filled with bland exposition, that the authors attempts to flower up, instead making most of it awkward and immersion breaking.

Plot wise : Like the TV show lost, it presents an interesting situation and questions in the beginning, but fails to deliver anything satisfactory time and time again. By the later books in the series, it just becomes a mess you don't care about.

Seek out better apocalyptic fiction than this. Don't waste your credits.

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