Toward Yesterday

By: Paul Antony Jones

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself 25 years in the past? For the nine billion people living in the year 2042 it's no longer a question...it's a reality.

When a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded in the past alongside the rest of mankind. Here the old are young once more, the dead live again, and civilization is in chaos.

With the fate of humanity on the line, James must join a hastily assembled group of scientists, a reincarnated murder victim, and a genius trapped in her six-year-old body to reconcile the earlier mistakes of their future counterparts. The team struggles to prevent global extinction, and along the way they come face-to-face with their past losses, new loves, and a cold-blooded killer. As the team plummets toward a final confrontation, will they be able to undo time's unraveling in order to save the human race?

Revised edition: this edition of Toward Yesterday includes editorial revisions.

©2016 Paul Antony Jones (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Very intriguing story

Paul's books always make you ask the question, what if? A fun sci-fi story with interesting twists and turns that held my interest and made me ponder possibilities.

Creative concept; so-so implementation

Very early on New Year's Day of the year 2042 the people on earth find that the calendar has moved back 25 years to 2017. Most people are 25 years younger, many who died since 2017 were alive again, and people younger than 25 no longer existed. Creative contemporary sci-fi concept! The implementation is okay, but not as good as the concept. Overall Toward Yesterday is a worthwhile listen. It is made better by outstanding narration.

Can you check the time for me?

If you could sum up Toward Yesterday in three words, what would they be?

Original
Intense
Consuming

What did you like best about this story?

The original idea of the novel is at once standard fare done well ( a time leap ) and original ( what is the implications of the entire concept.) Very cool indeed!

What about Alexander Cendese’s performance did you like?

Again, I come back to the central voice casting ideas. Consistent, clear and original. He does all three, and it grows on the listener. Well performed, and I will look for him in future offerings.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The moment when "the event" occurred was highly compelling and described in relentless and profound detail.

Any additional comments?

This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of Audiobook Blast.

An excellent combination of author, idea and performance, this is a very unique book in the dystopian/timetravel category, and comes highly recommended.

Lots of twists and a great overall story

Amazing science fiction, nice time travel element that is different from most. I love all the twists and turns. I hope that this is the first of many more in this series!!

Good way to pass time.

This book is definitely a good way to pass the time. While enjoyable, it’s definitely forgettable. Also, the narration is a tad bit aggressive.

Really great book

I really enjoyed this! It reminded me a bit of the TV show Fringe at times. The narrator was very good. The narrator alone can make or break a book for me. I would be interested if there was a sequel. Not that there need be one. I will be checking out this authors other works.

Good read and great narration..

So, some reviewers said they were lost from the beginning, some said they just hated it BUT I thoroughly enjoyed it. The players were great: Jim, Rebecca, Adrianna, Lorenz, Mabry, Mina, Simone and Lark.

Byron Portia made the story more interesting since he was a serial killer and Father Edward Pike was just insane. So there were all kinds of things going on besides working on how the “slip” happened and how to correct what had happened.

And I thought it was cool that everyone went back 25 years and one of the geniuses working at the lab had gone back to being her 12 year old self with all her knowledge intact, that was Adrianna. And one of the girls, Rebecca, that had been brought back to life was one of Byron’s victims.

There really was nothing boring or confusing about this book. I liked it. I don’t care what anyone says.

There was no sex, only fade-to-black and the F-bomb was used only ONCE. However, there were other swearwords.

As to the narration: Alexander Cendese did an awesome job on his voices and emotions.

A good relaxing read

I enjoyed it. It's a good story and well thought-out. For me, it was little too short. I would have liked it to be extended with more details and more exploration of the characters.

well read

i really liked the voice actor he was really good. i just wish the book was longer i feel like there should have been more story

Worth getting, VERY well performed

Alexander Cendese is a master audio performer..... I love the way he vocalizes the emotions and changes his voice for each character which adds hugely to the quality of the story.... He is able to bring the characters to life with his voice.... You should get this audiobook for that reason alone but also because in this story the science is plausible..... Just like the books from the golden age of science fiction (for the most part).... Which is what I really enjoyed about reading printed books when I was a kid.

Thank you Paul Antony Jones for taking the time to write a VERY well done true science fiction book.

And thank you Alexander Cendese for doing such a FANTASTIC audio presentation.

If you like quality science fiction this audio book is well worth the money (smile)