Yesterday's Gone: Season One

By: Sean Platt, David Wright

Narrated by: Chris Patton, Brian Holsopple, Ray Chase, Maxwell Glick, Tamara Marston, R.C. Bray

Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Start the first season of the groundbreaking postapocalyptic serial: Yesterday's Gone: Season One (episodes 1-6).

WARNING: This is a postapocalyptic horror audiobook where bad people do evil things, and as such, this series features disturbing scenes and foul language. While it is all within the context of the story, some listeners may find this content offensive.

Can humanity survive what it never saw coming? On October 15 at 2:15 a.m. Earth vanished. A scattered few woke alone in a world with no rules, other than survival at any cost. A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty New York, searching for his wife and son. A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now an endangered species. A mother shields her young daughter from danger through every terror-filled breath.

A bullied teen is thrilled to find the world gone missing, until the knock on his door. A fugitive survives a fiery plane crash. Will he be redeemed, or return to the killing he's best at? An eight-year-old boy sets out on a journey to find his missing family, only to find something that will change him forever. These survivors aren't truly alone.... Someone or something is watching them. And waiting...

Strangers unite. Sides are chosen. Can humanity survive what it never saw coming?

©2013 Sean Platt, David Wright (P)2013 Podium Publishing

Very weird. Couldn't stayed interested.

I suppose I am less interested in the rapture as an apocolypse than say an emp or invasion.

Awesome

Everything!!!! So let’s see if they stay true to the plot or drift off into obscurity

Holy crap, wow.

Where does Yesterday's Gone: Season One rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is the first FICTION audio book I've ever listened to. Before I picked this up, I was skeptical about whether or not I'd be able to get into a fiction audio book while working, but grabbed it on a whim and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to stay engaged with this story while simultaneously swearing at photoshop for six to twelve hour stretches.

What other book might you compare Yesterday's Gone: Season One to and why?

As far as format goes, it's a lot like the A Song of Ice and Fire series in that it switches points of view a lot, and most of the narrators are either unreliable or ignorant, which isn't a bad thing and lends a lot to the atmosphere--I don't want every little detail about the big scaries up front, and this format was fantastic for keeping the mystery going. As far as actual content, I'd compare it to some of Steven King's older stuff? I'm not really sure, because I haven't read King since the 90s, maybe early 2ks and my memory of anything I was reading or enjoying at that time is shoddy at best, making me an unreliable reviewer, haha.

Which scene was your favorite?

Do I seriously have to choose? I think some of the most satisfying parts of the book were when various groups started to meet up and merge. The first part introduced all of these characters and made me like (or even more thrillingly HATE them), and while that was great, when the different threads of story start to come together it hits all the right buttons on my 'things a book needs for me to enjoy the christ out of it' panel.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Misery porn at its finest!

Any additional comments?

I finished this book and went looking for the next part, only to find that it does not yet exist in audio format. I draw comics for a living and need background noise with no visuals to distract me, and this book was perfect. I MUST have the next part, gentlemen. MUST. HAVE. IT.

Interesting story with a mostly solid narration

What other book might you compare Yesterday's Gone: Season One to and why?

Stephen King's The Stand, with one of the characters obviously influenced by that novel.

Any additional comments?

A bit of a slow start, but it finishes strong. Overall I enjoyed most aspects of this book.

However, Maxwell Glick's inclusion made it impossible for me to listen to a good portion of this book. I suffered through one chapter of his narration before deciding that I was better off skipping any further chapters that he narrated. He reads as though his audience is a group of children. For children's books and perhaps young adult fiction this may be acceptable, but here it feels out of place and is extremely irritating. Admittedly, the sections he narrates are largely from the perspective of an 8 year old child, but I would have preferred this presented in a manner more suited to the audience, rather than the character.

All the other narrators do a good job, with Ray Chase providing an especially well tuned performance.

awesome

great but very exciting and easy to read. Lots of twists and turns you don't see what is coming up ahead. Action kept you wanting to hear more. A bit crude at times.

Addictive

Great listen a science fiction must get. I was hesitant at first but after hour three I was hooked

I've Been Holding Out On This One For A While

So, I wasn't sure about this even though it had good reviews and I had looked it over several times. I finally decided to dive in and I am very pleased with that decision and ready to start Season 2 immediately.

I won't summarize the plot since others have and there is a summary in the audiobook entry. I will tell you that there is a wide range of characters and they don't start coming together until the end and not even then entirely. I would imagine that there is more coming together to come in Season 2.

It isn't really clear what is going on; there are multiple theories thrown around by different characters and each is pretty plausible in their own right. I'm not quite sure of which one I think is correct. It really is intriguing and the authors do a good job at keeping you wondering while also telling a story about people in general, some good and some not so good; well, some pretty bad to be frank.

There's some language and violence, but nothing too graphic sexually (one rape scene, but it is handled pretty tastefully and not described in any graphic way). There is a complete psychopath (one of the main characters) who is quite vulgar in his speech including sexually, so if you cant handle listening to what a dirtbag guy he is and how he thinks then maybe this isn't for you. But, compared to how graphic many books/audiobooks get now days, this is pretty mild.

The narration is excellent. I know some people describe being ignored by Luca's childish way of talking and Borricio's dirty, sexual slang. I didn't think I was going to like either character, but each settled into the story quite well in their respective roles and I didn't end up thinking that much about their styles of speech (Luca is 8 years old, how do people think 8 year olds speak? Lol)

Overall, this is an interesting story with some intriguing ideas. The zombies (although calling them zombies is a bit of a misnomer) are too cliche and each of the characters offers what I think is a look into how different we really are but also how we have the same desires when forced to survive in an end of the world scenario where everybody is left wondering what the heck happened and what to do next.

This purchase was definitely worth the credit. It's good enough that I'm just going to buy Season 2 and not wait until my credits renew. :-)

pretty entertaining postapco mystery

Stephen Kings The Stand meets a handful of 2010's TV shows on end of world theme

World gone

This book has a lot of mysterious happenings in it. The characters were interesting and the narration was done well.

Once you start, you can't stop listening!

The concept of having multiple narrators worried me in the beginning of this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. Each narrator did an amazing job and it made it so much easier to keep all the characters straight. the storyline flowed nicely and kept you guessing at every turn. Once I started, I kept listening every chance I got. it definitely keeps you wondering, "What would I do if I woke up and everyone was gone? " #suspenseful #creepy #blackisland #earthbutnotearth #inthefutute #underdoghero #animalsurvivor #tagsgiving #sweepstakes