Yesterday's Gone: Season One Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Sean Platt (Author), David Wright (Author), Chris Patton (Narrator),

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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?

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15 hours and 43 minutes
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December 27, 2013
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Listening Length	15 hours and 43 minutes
Author	Sean Platt, David Wright
Narrator	Chris Patton, Brian Holsopple, Ray Chase, Maxwell Glick, Tamara Marston, R.C. Bray
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	December 27, 2013
Publisher	Podium Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00GT1MJJE
Best Sellers Rank	#154,523 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #2,139 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #4,471 in Horror Fiction #9,293 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books)

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Scott Moon

More Than Just Boricio Wolfe

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2016

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SUMMARY:

Here is the summary of this book review, in case you are in a hurry: Yesterday’s Gone (Season 1), by Sean Platt and David Wright (and edited by Jason Whited) is a serialized, post apocalyptic suspense thriller written from multiple viewpoints. The story, like others of the genre, is complex and escalates steadily to the cliffhanger ending. I thought the ending was skillfully done. It didn’t straight-out annoy me as many cliff-hangers do. There was just enough resolution to satisfy me, while still (strongly) encouraging me to read the next book -- which I have purchased in ebook and audiobook formats (because I roll like that).

THE MEAT AND GUTS OF THIS REVIEW:

My to-be-read pile is tall. I have more books waiting for my attention that I will ever find time to enjoy properly. I also know that Sean Platt and David Wright are extremely prolific artist. So why would I torture myself by starting a series?

Because the are a lot of fun to watch on their podcasts. They have a healthy attitude about and pride in being writers. The first book in the series was free and I thought, somewhat unrealistically, that I might practice putting the/a book down if it wasn’t deserving of my time. (I am a bit of a finisher, despite being prone to slow reading...daydreaming… and distraction.)

So I grabbed Yesterday’s Gone, Season 1 and slammed it down on the top of my digital “to-read” pile.

I didn't know what to expect. I was hoping for the best and afraid that I would be disappointed. I knew from just sampling the beginning that it was well written (as far as basic craft and mechanics) and the premise was interesting, but I was making a commitment to spend a lot of time with these to authors and their imaginations.

One of my goals for this year is to learn to read faster, for the sake of enjoyment and revising my own work more efficiently. I started out reading very fast, and slipped into my normal let’s-poke-around-this-fictional-world-with-a-daydream pace.

This, my friends, is a sign.

I stayed up late at night with the story. When should have been doing other things, out came on my Kindle Fire. This was a last ditch attempt to give my eyes a break from phone reading, which is my normal MO. I finished it in what was a fairly short time period in comparison to how I normally read.

And now I'm the proud new owner of both an ebook and an audiobook version of Yesterday's Gone, Season 2.

Season one is a long and complex book with lots of characters. There are multiple viewpoints which is something I often like, but can be mishandled by some authors. There were a few points in this story when I was having a hard time differentiating between the characters (possibly because I didn’t make time for ‘enjoyment reading’ for several days at a time; I was writing a lot). Once I latched onto my favorite characters in the story, the entire thing started to grow on me.

A FINAL WORD (WRITTEN LATE AT NIGHT AFTER WORKING A FULL SHIFT AND THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THIS STUFF):

Sean Platt and David Wright are the real deal. They write an excellent suspense thriller. In short these guys are pros. I don’t award as many five star ratings as I used to when I first began reviewing books. Even as I write this I'm not sure if I can justify giving a full five stars, because I hold five star books in a much higher standard. The basically have to change my life (nonfiction) or leave a long-lasting resonance that not many stories do these days.

I hope the tone of this review isn't too much. It might be that I've somehow expected less of writers who write in such a great quantity and so quickly (despite my own propensity to attempt the same thing). As a writer, I agree that writing quickly can often lead to a better, more honest story, but while I say this and tell myself I believe it, the long-standing view of our society is that creativity should be slow, painful, and leading to alcoholism and suicide.

How dark is that? Wow. We grow up believe this and still want to be artists? Why can’t writing, or painting, or making music, or anything be a joyful and fulfilling process? Why, I ask you!?

And even though I am also an independent author and bridle at the stigma, it is easy to look for faults in the work that an author has spent the time, energy, and personal risk to self-publish / produce.

This makes me feel like the strangest kind of hypocrite to judge fellow indies more harshly than I would a traditional published author, but I guess it's just hardwired into my daydreaming-prone brain.

The point is that I am seriously impressed with this story and recommend it to anybody who enjoys thrillers or serial fiction or both. The only risk I took in reading this book was that I might waste my time. I downloaded it from Amazon for free and I enjoyed it. Enough to buy season two. It remains to be seen if I will like season two enough to buy season three, but I imagine that I'm probably hooked.

I SHOULD PROBABLY SLEEP NOW

I should probably sleep now, it’s the responsible thing.

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Sidney von Katzendame

Apocalyptic genre? Try WTFITY genre! Amazing!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2012

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I've read probably about a hundred (or more) apocalyptic books on my kindle - mostly zombie fiction, but after ten in a row of "gargle, brains, gargle" I decided to try something new. I went and sorted on sci-fi/fantasy by reviews and that is how I found this amazing series written by two guys who are now in my top ten favorite authors for what I like to call the "WTFITY genre" - which is my personal favorite genre.
I started reading this book and COULD. NOT. STOP.
I read it at work.
I read it in the bathroom.
I admit it - I even read it a little while driving - during every stop light and every parking lot imitation I sat through on I-84.
I read it while walking into my apartment, I read it in the elevator, and I read it while cooking dinner.
I couldn't put it down until I was done. I only stopped to sleep because it was necessary.

I finished the last of it at my parent's house, and then loaned it out to my mother's kindle account. After three episodes of her exclaiming "oh my GOD! What the f***!?" every few minutes, I told her that if she liked the book so much she should buy her own copy to support the authors. And so she did. (She's now on episode 2, while I just finished episode 3 - no worries, no spoilers here). She was so INTO this book she paused from reading the "Game of Thrones" series in the middle - and if you've read those, you know George R.R. Martin likes the cliffhangers as well as these guys do (though they do it better, with all the finesse of a sledgehammer-wielding ballet dancer - by the by, that's a compliment).

I liked it so much I recommended it to my chiropractor - who a few hours later emailed me saying, "What did you do to me??? I can't stop reading!"

I'm not going to summarize the book for you here, because I really don't want to accidentally give away anything that might spoil one of the many surprises this book has to offer. The only warning I will give is this - it starts out a little slow, and if you're the type who thinks they need action from the first page, that doesn't happen in this series. You start out with a false sense of security despite the WTFITY of the beginning and a vague sense that SOMETHING HORRIBLE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.

BE PATIENT, GENTLE READER - YOU WILL NOT REGRET READING THIS TO THE END. The curtain is pulled back slowly, allowing for maximum "could it be this? Could it be that? WTFITY!" moments on the part of the reader.

This book contains copious amounts of: intrigue, action, WTFITY moments (I was so immersed they didn't even ping my suspension of disbelief meter), amazing characters (who continue to develop in exciting and freaky ways in the following seasons) and most importantly: THRILLS AND CHILLS TO RIVAL HITCHCOCK. Yes, that's right, I said HITCHCOCK (the best director in the history of the universes). That's how much I loved these books. You're in good hands with these authors. I can't say enough, and I hope my review will inspire you to buy and try these guys on for size - and trust me, they're one size fits all kind of authors.

PS: WHAT WOULD BORICIO DO!??!

PPS: These authors have inspired me to go back and review ALL the books I have enjoyed in the past. I joined their newsletter and checked out their webpage, and I'll be reading their other series while I wait patiently on rusty nails and broken glass for season 4.

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Paul MadsenKindle Customer

A dark and wacky view of a apocalypse

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2022

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Several views from different perspectives of life when 99.9% of the worlds population have disappeared . Monsters exist and you don't know what will happened next.

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Fiona Brady

Underwhelming

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 4, 2022

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I really don't understand why this book is billed as written like a tv series with 'episodes'. The authors have said they wanted to write something episodic with cliffhanger endings and the blurb goes on about it being like 24. I'm sorry but for me it's like any other book with chapters, although it is divided into parts as well - like lots of other books.
I think this coloured my view of the book a bit because it just annoyed me. The plot starts out promising and there are just enough hints for you to make your own predictions of what cataclysmic event has taken place, although you are kept guessing. The characters are the worst part of it though. Too many, too implausible (an 8 year old using words like un-possible, do they know any 8 year olds?), too unlikeable.
Because it is written the way it is and there are more books, it's not really a giveaway to say that nothing is resolved in this one - clearly a device to get you to buy the rest. I'm afraid that I wasn't interested enough by the end to carry on reading the series.

Sarah

Tries too hard to create suspense by revealing nothing about the actual story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 15, 2016

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Another apocalypse novel, which has what might be turn out to be a somewhat interesting story-line, although you don't really get to find out anything about what is actually going on, or the reasons for the end of the world.. Admittedly, I've not quite finished it, but am pretty sure that it won't reveal much more before the end. While I enjoy cliff-hangers, I always thought good authors could reveal enough so that readers gradually find out what the main story line is supposed to be, while still creating suspense within that story - here, the only thing that kept me reading was wanting to know what was happening. The story is told from multiple perspectives, and each section is so short, and the switches so frequent that I struggled to remember what each story line had been when it was resumed. I found the characters a bit flat, and the younger ones annoyed me. An 8-year-old who uses words like "un-possible" and "scary spiders"? A teenager who has a "dream daddy" and a "real daddy"? I don't know whether the speaking style and developmental level portrayed would be appropriate for US kids, but the portrayal of the 8-year-old struck me as being more appropriate for a 4-year-old, and the teenager (Paola) as behaving and talking more like a somewhat immature 10 year old, which made their characters unbelievable for me. I also found the phrases used by the Boricio character somewhat tedious and unrealistic: "beer-battered bulls***" is one of the more frequent examples.... I would still like to know what exactly is happening, but suspect that even if I go against my better judgement and get the next book, it will also end without having revealed much about the actual story-line - as another reviewer suggested, maybe the authors haven't actually worked that out themselves yet and are stalling until they do??

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A-Canadian-in-Singapore

Book equivalent of cocoa pops

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 21, 2016

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This book is filled with idiot moments, shallowly-drawn characters, enough action scenes and horror scenes and WTF-was-that? scenes that the authors hope you don't notice its fairly pedestrian storytelling. Threads and picked up and dropped again at breakneck pace - lots of jumping from scene to scene, trying to keep the suspense up via more and more cliffhangers. The authors claim they were going for a serial feel, and that is exactly what this is like: a cheap Saturday morning serial. Not very good, not very deep, but it's okay for when you want something quick and easy, and you're hungover and don't want to have to think at all, but it's hardly satisfying. It's the literary equivalent of cocoa pops.

7 people found this helpful

K. Dawes

Really tried but not for me!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 26, 2015

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I really, really tried with this one......I even stopped reading it and tried again just in case I was missing something. I really wanted to enjoy it and given some of the reviews I was confident I would.
However not the case.......I didn't really connect with any of the characters and normally when I read I can lose myself in the story however with this I stopped caring about the characters and about the reason that everybody had vanished.
It did keep me reading (just in case there were any answers!) but I won't be reading the next one.
I've read a couple of other similar stories by different authors that I found more interesting and a better pace of writing. I found with this that each chapter was about a different character but the story didn't really go anywhere, so felt I was just jumping from each character.
I downloaded it for free so no complaints, but no matter what the story and the characters were just not for me.

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RazorGrrl

Awsome story, exceptionally well-read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 5, 2017

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Really enjoying the audible version. The narration is well paced & not too intrusive - the voices that have been chosen are neither annoying, soporific nor (& this is my biggest bugbear with audible narrations) horribly over acted...
As to the story, it works brilliantly & does exactly what it says on the tin. It's episodic nature reminiscent of "Lost" or "24". I love the way the narrative switches between different characters & their P.O.V In this way you get a really immediate sense of danger & time passing, as well as getting a very in-depth feeling for each of them. None of the protagonists are flat or dull - & even the very unlikable ones start to develop in interesting directions. (I didn't think I'd have any time for Boricio, for example... but I now see him developing & changing in ways that may be surprising - at least, I hope so !)

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