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The Event (The Survivors Book One) by [Nathan Hystad]

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The ships came at dawn.

Dean’s wife is dead. Her last words: When the ships come...wear the necklace.

Then the ships arrived.

Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky.

Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth.

A trail of clues left by his dead wife guide Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond, to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.

But not everything is as it seems.

The Event is the epic first novel of the best-selling Survivors series.

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March 2, 2018
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★★★★★ "I was very impressed with this book. As a first novel it is fantastic." - PJ Lea
★★★★★ "Nathan Hystad belongs to the new wave of professional Self Published Authors, and this is a top grade book. I whole-heatedly recommend this book. And heart is a good word to use. There are very few books which have this much in them. And even better, book two is only a month away!" - Ralph Kern, best-selling author of Endeavour and Unfathomed

★★★★★ "A fun fast paced ride.Alien invasion, danger and plot twists!" - Mark R.

★★★★★ "One of the best sci fi books I have read" - Kindle Customer

★★★★★ "I can hardly wait to see what happens in the next installment" - rajah622

★★★★★ "A fun, fast read" - james fieser

From the Author

The Survivors Series

The Event
New Threat
New World
The Ancients
The Theos
Old Enemy
New Alliance
The Gatekeepers
New Horizon
The Academy
Old World
New Discovery
Old Secrets
The Deities
New Beginning
New Lies
The Colony

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079LZR278
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Woodbridge Press (March 2, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 2, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2292 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #33,589 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #105 in Metaphysical Science Fiction eBooks
- #215 in Travel Adventure Fiction
- #367 in Space Fleet Science Fiction eBooks

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Nathan Hystad

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Nathan Hystad is the best-selling author of The Event and Lost Contact. He writes about alien invasion, first contact, colonization, and everything else he devoured growing up. He's had hundreds of thousands of copies sold and read, and loves the fact he's been able to reach so many amazing readers with his stories.

Nathan's written over thirty novels, including The Survivors, Baldwin's Legacy, and The Resistance.

He's also done mystery/thrillers with Red Creek, Return to Red Creek, and Lights Over Cloud Lake.

All of Nathan's books are available in audio.

Get Constantine, a free story set in the Baldwin's Legacy universe by signing up for his newsletter at www.nathanhystad.com

The Bridge Sequence

Lost Contact

Lost Time

Lost Hope

Space Race

Space Battle

Space Strike

The Survivors

The Event

New Threat

New World

The Ancients

The Theos

Old Enemy

New Alliance

The Gatekeepers

The Academy

Old World

New Discovery

Old Secrets

The Deities

New Beginning

New Lies

The Colony

Baldwin's Legacy

Confrontation

Unification

Culmination

Hierarchy

Lineage

Legacy

The Resistance

Rift

Revenge

Return

Red Creek

Return to Red Creek

Lights Over Cloud Lake

The Manuscript

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JTKST

4 against ET

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2018

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What I liked about this book was it was just plain good old story telling. People have said well no one cross's the ocean in 4 days or sail boats cannot go fast or the people met and became friends right away. It is a story and as much of the SF being written now, I think it is refreshing to not see constant space battles and mass ships being blown out of space. This was a people story and I enjoyed how the story unfolded little bit by little bit. I would say if your looking ray guns and missiles and ships being destroyed, then this book is not for you. If you want a change of pace and a people story, I think you will like it. I am going for the next book.

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Nikolai Tsekov

I was probably 30 pages from the end and couldn't finish it.

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2018

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I was probably 30 pages from the end and couldn't finish the book. Had to hard press myself into reading it for the sake of all those positive reviews I've read, but this is becoming ridiculous to the point I just couldn't do it anymore. Serves me right, after all I know to never trust reviews on sci-i books. The main character, the aliens, the technology, everything is utter nonsense. It's 2018, we should be more picky and critical with the books we read, and that was just a waste of my time.

Mind you, this is one of the very few books I ever gave lower than 3 star. Even books I didn't enjoy at all usually got 3 or 4 because of some nice ideas, characters, setting or something else. Here you have a complete failure in every regard.

68 people found this helpful

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Chris Stivers

The Event is a page turner full of surprises.

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2018

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The Event, by Nathan Hystad, takes a common trope and makes it an engaging and satisfying read you won't want to put down. Full of surprises, the story includes interesting characters whose ambitions and loyalties may not be clear for many chapters. The heros face many challenges to accomplish their goals, not to mention mere survival. We see real human emotion--attraction, distrust, vulnerability, dependence--as relationships form. For sci fi the reader must suspend belief to accept alien trappings, but Hystad effectively explains the unearthly. It's the way our natural world is described that is sometimes hard to accept (travel time, physical properties, luck). Despite that, I found this an entertaining read that had me staying up later than I should. Can't wait to start book 2, New Threat.

37 people found this helpful

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Dr. Ron

New writer, exciting but flawed execution.

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018

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A promising new writer, a fun (though flawed) story, and some interesting ideas.
First, the writer keeps the action going and, for me at least, engaged the reader sufficiently that I wanted to keep reading.
Second, there are numerous logical and literary flaws that hopefully can be improved upon with a bit of editing, a little research, good beta-readers, and additional experience.
Finally, there were several intriguing ideas that worked for me. If the writer will consider the excellent advice given in many of the lower-rated reviews, I expect we will have more interesting work ahead.

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Greyhound37

A good mystery that reels you in, but sometimes lacking in science and logic

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2018

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A good mystery story with some science fiction thrown in.

I enjoyed the mystery writing in this book. Lots of unexplained happenings, stringing the reader along til the end. However, there were a few things I had hoped more effort had been put into to make the experience more complete.

1. The Logic Train derailed sometimes. Some basic premises the characters accepted, seemingly quite easily seemed to defy logic or human nature occasionally. I thought it would all be explained in the end, and some of it was, but ultimately I was left scratching my head a few times thinking, "really? who would believe that!"

2. The Science, or perhaps the facts. Since this book is nominally Science Fiction, I was expecting a little more science and facts. Keeping things deliberately vague is one way to get around having to research things or create advanced technologies from whole cloth, but I really would have enjoyed more detailed descriptions in some areas.

All that said, it was a good, solid book that was enjoyable to read. Had it been a standalone novel I would have been completely sated. When the cliffhanger was revealed at the end, it kind of felt like it was tacked on as an afterthought to an otherwise complete story.

24 people found this helpful

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Susie Vermont

Alien Invasion, Conspiracies and Betrayals

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018

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The aliens came. No weapons could affect them. They kidnapped almost everyone. Then the rather unlikely savior Dean the accountant takes off with Carey, his kidnapped-by-aliens neighbor's dog, on a mission to save the world and humanity.
An unexpectedly great read, the book is a maze of conspiracies, counter conspiracies and betrayal. Just when you think you've got most of it figured out, another level of complexity appears. Starts a little bit slowly, giving you a chance to get to know our hero. Stick with it and you'll be happy you did.

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Dr Wayne

Great concepts

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2018

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Had an opportunity to read the second book also. Some great plots and twists. End comes way too fast. Would have liked to learn a little more about the changes on earth and the colonists. Maybe this will show in book three. Both books are worth the time and I look forward to more tales from this author......

A little fast when moving between events and a little more development would be appropriate. Maybe this should have been two books rather than one. What happens when the stuff you need is not right in front of you. Was Dean just lucky. Liked the interaction between the characters. Did anyone talk with Ray's family?

20 people found this helpful

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Keith

Not sophisticated enough for a middle schooler

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2018

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I hate to knock a man on his first book, but... wow. I'm the kind of person who can't leave a bad movie, or put down a bad book, until I reach the end, even if it means just scanning text quickly. But finally 3/4 of the way through I threw the book down. I didn't care what happened. Not a good sign. I think it was the line "Let's kick some alien ass!" Or at least it was something like that. I don't care enough to look back and see if I'm right.

Bad enough that the story is thin and the writing is thinner, but the dialogue is even worse.

All I can say is don't. Just don't.

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Steve

The sort of thing you can read while operating heavy machinery.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2019

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This story was mildly entertaining but had too many plot holes to make it enjoyable. The Amazon synopsis suggests that we have a "last man on Earth" scenario. I was looking forward to that. It was about twenty pages when the first of the other last-man-on-Earth characters appeared. One was a woman our hero fancied, so that was handy.
There were supposed to be twists in the story with double-crossing characters increasing the tension and building anticipation. Unfortunately, there were no surprises. You can see the twists coming a mile off.
The only thing dimmer than our main characters is the really dim aliens. Their technology might be quite good, but they are too stupid to conquer galaxies really. With all the advantages of being like a Star Trek alien (similar height, humanish, breathes our atmosphere, OK with our gravity and can speak English), they were still unable to get away with it. Just daft and light. The sort of thing you can read while operating heavy machinery.
I don't think I'll be buying the sequel.

3 people found this helpful

ehs

its an okay book but not a hit for me!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2018

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I received a free copy of the book in return for an honest review.
Hmmmm, I don't quite understand the rave reviews others have given it. It is well written, and the main characters are fully fleshed and believable but and its a big but for me!
It's the story, it gets more and more fantastical as it goes. Now I've been reading science fiction for nearly 55 years now so its not that I'm not used to incredible story lines but.....I don't want to give away spoilers, but I'm afraid I have to a little. So!.crossing the Atlantic in just 4 days is close to the record! The journey to Machu Picchu in the timescale they had is just not credible, its 1600 plus miles at least! A character running up the last part of the approach to the city beggars belief.. come on its 14,000 feet above sea level, it usually takes people two weeks to just adjust to the altitude going up in stages!
Then we get to the Independence Day scenario of being able to fly an alien space craft......
I finished the book but I don't think I 'll be rushing to read the next. This one was fairly polished but could still have done with a little proof reading and some serious editorial input to make it more believable.
The author is clearly influenced by Cinema and TV that have addressed this situation. So its an okay book but not a hit for me!

5 people found this helpful

Kevin T

A reasonable read, but not a best-seller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2019

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One of the main criteria I have when reading a new book is - do I want to keep reading long after "lights out" ? Well, I have to say that this book did not meet this requirement. I was quite happy to put it down mid-plot, although I did eventually read it to the end. I am not sure why, but maybe it has a lot to do with the unoriginality of the plot which is a cross between "Day of the Triffids" and "War of the Worlds", both of which are far better written, if a little dated today. The characters are rather flat, and seem to accept the sudden and complete destruction of their regular lives with ridiculous aplomb. Where is the self-doubt and angst - even terror - that realistic individuals would undoubtedly experience in this situation ? I know it is fiction, but these individuals were so "chilled out" that I could not really relate to them, and consequently had little interest in their fate.
However, I read it to the end, so that is a plus. I don't see myself ever reading it again though, as I regularly do with other books (another mark of a good book).
Sorry, Nathan !!

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Nikki

The Event (Survivors book 1)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2018

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This book starts well, with a promising storyline. However about two-thirds in, the storyline became somewhat unbelievable and unrealistic (even in sci-fi terms). I think this author has talent, but needs to work on more consistency in his writing. Perhaps a little more research into details of things he is describing wouldn't go amiss - he mentions the speed of the yacht as knots per hour; this is a measure of acceleration, not speed, and should simply be knots. The actual speed of this yacht is also much too fast for a craft of this type and size.
Will I buy the next book in the series? Yes, because I actually found the book a pleasant and easy read, especially the first half.

Jay D'Arcy

Awesome

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2019

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I really enjoyed this story of a man Dean, and his......no, not his dog. Carey, belonged to a neighbour, but when all of humanity was 'taken' the pooch was good company. Was Dean alone? Where did all the people go?
This is the beginning of a frightening tale, a chase across the globe then space, in search of what? Does humanity survive?

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