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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
Sean Platt & David W Wright: Yesterday's Gone (Season 1) Sean Platt and David Wright take readers on a journey of what would happen if one day you woke up and everyone was gone: Well almost everyone, there seem to be a few people that are still here alive, assuming everyone else is dead. The surviving few are different ages, gender, race, occupations and some are good and some are evil. It is unknown why they were chosen to survive and survive they must, as there is something more watching them. Side will be chosen, allies and enemies made, can the human race survive just on these "chosen" few. This book was originally released in a serial format, but I received the first six episodes in one book. For me this book was a DNF and I hate that it was as the premise of the book had so much promise and intrigue for me. I was able to make it through one serial and half of the next section when I stopped reading, I lost interest in the entire book and where the authors were going with it. I think that due to the fact that it was in a serial so they needed to have each serial as a mini book instead of chapters and for me this affected the overall flow of the book. I think that the serial format hurt this book but maybe I would have thought differently if I had read it in the serial format instead of having it lumped together in a book as I would have had a break between the releases. Personally, I think the serial format is better suited for TV and honestly I could see this book as a TV show, just from how it was presented and written I could not get in to the story or the characters and the characters I did find interesting had less sections from their viewpoints, which that takes me to my next point that there were too many characters. With too many characters there were too many different experiences and too much information about each one to not only keep them straight but also to understand what was going on in the book. I'm always disappointed when I'm unable to finish a book, but sometimes it just happens, and we all move on to a book that will hopefully be an amazing. If you have previously read a book that is serial in format then you may like this one as well, but it was not for me. Cheers!!!
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Mr. Wright and Platt have to be making money on this and I'm surprised that this is my first introduction to "episode" series. Beware if you start this it is like potato chips or grandma's homemade cookies; you can't just have one. No, no the suspense of the plot will keep you coming back...until you realized your five episodes in and you should have just bought the first season as a package.
The plot is interesting and keeps you on your feet. One season in and I'm still trying to figure out what is going one; which I love. If you don't mind cliff hangers and enjoy a fast action plot this is a good series to check out.
I will be getting the second season...well played Mr. Wright and Platt, not sure if I should love you for your work or hate you for getting me so hooked.
The plot is interesting and keeps you on your feet. One season in and I'm still trying to figure out what is going one; which I love. If you don't mind cliff hangers and enjoy a fast action plot this is a good series to check out.
I will be getting the second season...well played Mr. Wright and Platt, not sure if I should love you for your work or hate you for getting me so hooked.
If I quit books, I can tell you exactly when I would have quit this one. It was at 53%, and I had quite hit my "Ugh!" saturation. I don't quit books, however, so I slogged through endless pages of crap. This book is a giant pile of shit, and every time you think it is as smelly and disgusting as it possibly can get, the authors take another giant dump on the pile making it even grosser until it is completely unbearable.
By that, I mean that this book is a humorless, unmitigated series of unfortunate events that makes it dreary and unenjoyable. By the end, I was seriously experiencing physical nausea at the idea of reading any more of it. As other readers have mentioned, the worst part was the Boricio bits. I could have perhaps put up with it if his role was deemphasized, but the authors were clearly having a rollicking good time writing their serial killer and actually expand his poison into other characters. Fun. Speaking of serial killers, aren't they pretty much by definition psychopaths? Which means that they can't feel empathy, at all? Right, so some of the events toward the end are a stretch for me.
Oh, should I say something about all the lurid PA details? They're not fresh. You can see which various books and movies the scenes and characters were borrowed from, so let's add unoriginal to my stack of adjectives. Also, I can't tell if it was difficulty incorporating those borrowed images, or a desire for a stack of red herrings, or if the authors were just making it up as they went along, but the plot was all over the place like a schizophrenic rat.
I considered giving this two stars, because the first episode was pretty snappy, but let's be honest. I hated this, and I didn't want to finish it, so for me it is a one-star book.
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Kindle Lending Library, Feb '13, for Apoclaypse Whenever group.
By that, I mean that this book is a humorless, unmitigated series of unfortunate events that makes it dreary and unenjoyable. By the end, I was seriously experiencing physical nausea at the idea of reading any more of it. As other readers have mentioned, the worst part was the Boricio bits. I could have perhaps put up with it if his role was deemphasized, but the authors were clearly having a rollicking good time writing their serial killer and actually expand his poison into other characters. Fun. Speaking of serial killers, aren't they pretty much by definition psychopaths? Which means that they can't feel empathy, at all? Right, so some of the events toward the end are a stretch for me.
Oh, should I say something about all the lurid PA details? They're not fresh. You can see which various books and movies the scenes and characters were borrowed from, so let's add unoriginal to my stack of adjectives. Also, I can't tell if it was difficulty incorporating those borrowed images, or a desire for a stack of red herrings, or if the authors were just making it up as they went along, but the plot was all over the place like a schizophrenic rat.
I considered giving this two stars, because the first episode was pretty snappy, but let's be honest. I hated this, and I didn't want to finish it, so for me it is a one-star book.
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Kindle Lending Library, Feb '13, for Apoclaypse Whenever group.
I've been listening to their Self Publishing Podcast and figured it was time I finally read something they wrote. I'm not a fan of the unexplained fantasy element, but weirdness aside, this is a pretty gripping, what-happens-next?! story. Written like a serial TV series with episodes and seasons, it offers numerous cliffhangers, which will perhaps be my biggest complaint--when do we get closure? But the characters, tone and style are just great. It's a fun ride.
I am a little bit disillusioned by this. It started reasonably promisingly with a man who woke up to find his wife and son missing. Indeed, most of the world has gone missing. There are some survivors, however, and they gather together in groups and various things happen. Pretty much standard for this kind of thing.
My problem lies in the episodic format more than anything. I listened to this from Audible, and the ending is perhaps one of the more annoying endings I've encountered for a book. This entire release is characters moving from one place to another. Literally nothing is resolved as part of this. Nothing at all. And it has the gall to end on a cliffhanger.
I struggled with Luca's chapters a lot. I didn't like him. I still don't like him, and I know almost nothing about him. I feel bad for Brent and the random people he's suddenly with. I suspect Edward is more than he lets on. Mary and Paola are interesting but they don't really do anything. Dog Vader dies. Perhaps the most interesting plot line was that of Charlie, Bob, Callie and Boricio. The trouble is, that plot line wasn't resolved in the slightest.
I almost resent the sheer number of things that haven't been wrapped up in this release. I realise it's some episodic thing (I have no idea why), but the first six have been cobbled together into a release entitled season 1. If this was on television, I would be very annoyed if I had to sit through it, learning very little, and then wait a year to find out anything at all.
I haven't decided if I'll bother with the other stories in this series.
My problem lies in the episodic format more than anything. I listened to this from Audible, and the ending is perhaps one of the more annoying endings I've encountered for a book. This entire release is characters moving from one place to another. Literally nothing is resolved as part of this. Nothing at all. And it has the gall to end on a cliffhanger.
I struggled with Luca's chapters a lot. I didn't like him. I still don't like him, and I know almost nothing about him. I feel bad for Brent and the random people he's suddenly with. I suspect Edward is more than he lets on. Mary and Paola are interesting but they don't really do anything. Dog Vader dies. Perhaps the most interesting plot line was that of Charlie, Bob, Callie and Boricio. The trouble is, that plot line wasn't resolved in the slightest.
I almost resent the sheer number of things that haven't been wrapped up in this release. I realise it's some episodic thing (I have no idea why), but the first six have been cobbled together into a release entitled season 1. If this was on television, I would be very annoyed if I had to sit through it, learning very little, and then wait a year to find out anything at all.
I haven't decided if I'll bother with the other stories in this series.
Love it!
What a great story! Just finished season one and can't wait to start season two! This totally reads like a TV series with "cliffhangers" - love it!
What a great story! Just finished season one and can't wait to start season two! This totally reads like a TV series with "cliffhangers" - love it!
A nice and fresh take on the post-apocalyptic theme with characters that makes you think.
Yesterday's Gone has way too many characters, with the point of view being shared among an ever-increasing circle of folks, quite a few of whom simply aren't that interesting. The authors assume that chucking a cliffhanger at the end of basically every chapter will make you want to keep reading, but (a) more than a few of these cliffhangers prove to be nothing more than fake-outs and (b) it's usually four of five chapters until you get back to the same narrator and by then the impetus has been entirely squelched by everything else that's gone on.
While the many, many mini-cliffhangers might suggest a whole lot is going on, it's rather a case of 'sound and fury, signifying nothing'. Few of the different groups of characters actually meet up in these nearly 500 pages, no-one's made any significant progress toward working out what's going on, and there's just an ever growing pile of "here's something weird that happens!" that's supposed to distract you. It reminds me of those serials from the 1930s where they'd have about 12 episodes but only the first couple and last couple actually mattered - all the middle was just pointless activity to pad out the length of the story.
The basic premise is interesting (though not that original), but the execution is too tiresomely long-winded and forced for me to bother wading through the other seasons.
While the many, many mini-cliffhangers might suggest a whole lot is going on, it's rather a case of 'sound and fury, signifying nothing'. Few of the different groups of characters actually meet up in these nearly 500 pages, no-one's made any significant progress toward working out what's going on, and there's just an ever growing pile of "here's something weird that happens!" that's supposed to distract you. It reminds me of those serials from the 1930s where they'd have about 12 episodes but only the first couple and last couple actually mattered - all the middle was just pointless activity to pad out the length of the story.
The basic premise is interesting (though not that original), but the execution is too tiresomely long-winded and forced for me to bother wading through the other seasons.