Lost & Found

The E Apocrypha, Book 1

By: Alex Andre

Narrated by: Kristiana Rice

Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

In a world shattered by loss of technology, survivors live off the scraps of the fallen civilization....

Ambitious young scavenger Yun-mi is thrilled that her mentor is finally taking her trading. Events take a horrific turn when his murder leads to her being sold to slavers. Driven by her ferocious determination, Yun-mi fights against her abductor. Survival depends on aligning herself with powerful allies, yet whom can she trust in the fractured society?

His first assignment as a recruit in the religious confederation military leads Buck into the fabled City. The brutal reality he finds along the way destroys any fairy-tale notions he clings to. Rocked by the revelations, Buck sees all the fundamental ideas he’s been raised on crumbling before his eyes. Is he truly one of the good guys? Or part of the problem plaguing the land?

As Yun-mi and Buck’s paths cross, they must work together on a mission that could alter the course of history. Forced to rely on one another, can they grant their decaying world another chance? Or will Yun-mi and Buck become collateral damage?

Lost & Found is the first book in The E Apocrypha series.

Content warnings: coarse language, non-gratuitous violence, mild (implied) sensual descriptions.

©2021 Alex Andre (P)2023 Alex Andre

Spectacular

This story has been spectacular from the start to finish. The story is well paced and full of action. Never a dull moment. The Narration is perfect and really brings the story to life. Definitely a book to listen to.

Post-apocalyptic survival with skillful prose!

"Lost & Found" by Alex Andre, narrated by Kristiana Rice, weaves a gripping tale of post-apocalyptic survival with skillful prose that keeps you hooked from start to finish. The narrators' performances are top-notch, bringing the characters to life with authenticity and emotion. If you crave a thrilling journey through a shattered world where trust is a rare commodity, "Lost & Found" is a must-read (or listen) that will leave you eagerly anticipating the next installment in The E Apocrypha series.

Good story

This is a good story. Give it a shot. I received a free copy and left my honest review

An interesting book worth a listen

TLDR: Story is good. has inconsistencies but worth giving it a go.

Full review:
the story is interesting and keeps you listening. I will say though that I found it odd that Five Points has such an aversion to technology yet they have guns and clocks, and also would be in a sense illiterate considering their tendency to curse and burn books. Basically an entire civilization that is illiterate. it makes me wonder how their government keeps things straight financially and keeping track of their history as well. I found it difficult to determine how far in the future this book takes place. it's setup in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario after some sort of deviating event occurred, and sometimes it sounds like it might be 50 years in the future, while at other times it feels like it must be a few hundred years in the future. I say this because glass windows are mentioned as being present in the city on occasion, which wouldn't be a thing in the distant future, while other times it sounds like enough human generations have gone by that people before the cataclysm would no longer be alive, which would require at least 70 years to even 100 years to have gone by. so there are some inconsistencies in the story. There were a lot of characters in the story as well, so many in fact that I had difficulties keeping straight each character's story at the beginning. still a good book. I recommend giving it a go!

Opportunity From Effort

love the cohesiveness of the character development and how smoothly all of the characters developed under the storyline. Super excited to read/listen to the next portion of the lives of this new society

Good post apoc read

Interesting dystopian read. Nice character development. Narrator was good, but a but slow. I sped it up to 1.2 and then was happy.

Interesting introduction to a dystopian future

Set in the Niagara Frontier of Canada, we find a post-tech world, where books, science and technology are shunned by a new breed of superstitious, religious fanatics, where everything is Apostasy.

The premise is interesting and the characters fairly well-formed. Not perfect, but worth a listen if you have ever considered what society might devolve into after a MCE or EMP.

Lost & Found: Book 1 of The E Apocrypha

A very peculiar and extremely well-developed world that has remade a familiar and very localized geographical area into a twisted post-apocalyptic world, full of mysteries and power struggles between clans and tribes.

The world is broken, decades after a catastrophic event wiped out all technology. A Modern world reduced not even to city states, but to town states and village states of sorts (kind of transports you back to the ancient days) a rich potpourri of modern and ancient social structures and cultures.

Not only a story of the civilization that has degraded to a shadow of itself, but of people that are very real with the same desires, hopes and ambitions as us. A tribute to the human thirst for knowledge. It has an engaging story and intricately woven plot. I'm looking forward to the second book!

The story follows Park Yun-mi, Seventeen-year-old young woman training to become a Rat in the City under the tutelage of Kim Joon Woo (She is learning how to use weapons, hunt, and find food). Then her whole world is turned upside down when Joon Woo is killed and she is sold into slavery.

Then there’s Private Baxter “Buck” Brennan, a fresh recruit in the religious Five Points Army, the confederation’s military. He is given a mysterious mission to the fabled City that leads him into the wasteland, beyond the Boundary.

Add in a hauler, Rajan Gupta, The Rotten Can, working from a sprawling railroad empire called the Station, Captain Weinberg, Head of Locksville Intelligence Service. And finally, a prominent hierarchy made up of the Five Golden Dragons of the High Council of New Kowloon, a powerful trade house. Park and Buck become entangled in a geopolitical game.