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The Event

Written by: Nathan Hystad
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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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 guides 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 by Nathan Hystad, creator of the best-selling Explorations anthology series.

©2018 Nathan Hystad (P)2018 Audible, Inc. Adventure Fantasy Fiction First Contact Science Fiction Marriage
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About the Creator - Nathan Hystad

About the Creator

Nathan Hystad is the bestselling author of Below Us, Lost Contact, The Other Place, The Event, and many others. He often merges his love of thrillers and mysteries into his science fiction, while using dynamic characters to tell the story. He lives in Alberta, Canada, with his wife and two cocker spaniels. When he’s not reading a book, writing a book, or dreaming about books, you’ll find him swinging a golf club.
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The story arc is great, if you want a fun little sci-fi adventure. But the writing and character development don't quite live up to the premise. The clearest example was a romantic attraction out of nowhere just because there has to be a love interest, with no explanation for why the characters are drawn to each other. The book also felt a bit rushed in places. Overall, I don't regret my purchase but I won't be buying the sequel.

A fun romp full of clichés

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I love SF, but am mostly disappointing when buying them, most SF books are, well, Just unbelievable, so I was surprised with this one, it kept my interest, the story was good, as well as the characters, will definitely read more from this author.

Better than I thought

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So here I was furiously looking for one of the ‘next’ books from one of my favourite authors and of course noooone of them have released new books, so I decided I would try something new, you know just because I have nothing better to do, the usual story. Anyways I decided on this book as the description arose my curiosity, and I must say I was very happy with this book, so much so I completely forgot about the aforementioned authors with no new books to release. Now that im done this one I will be moving onto the next and if all goes good with the next book I will be adding this author to my family of core writing people I enjoy.

Go ahead and pick this hidden gem up, or I guess put your ear buds in or head phones on, because lets face it, who on gods green earth has the time to actually sit down and read a book these days, since were all in a hurry to do nothing you may as well do something while doing nothing and give this book a try.

Regards,

From an amateur who thinks he’s a amateur

I wasn’t sure, but the description swayed me

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Not sure what genre this book fits into. It reads like a rejected manuscript for a Twilight Zone episode. The writing is banal, cliche'ed and predictable. There are a couple of plot twists, but they are seen from miles.

The reading is melodramatic with some annoying accents.

I downloaded this one because it was on sale. Waste of 4 bucks. Should have got a Latte or something

Kinda cool premise...poorly executed

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This probably would be a higher rating of it didn't kind of drag in the middle, if it was easier to distinguish between the good and the bad guys, and if the only bad human hadn't been black.

Not For Me

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