The Day after Oblivion

By: Tim Washburn

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

And so it begins....

In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea...Iran...Russia...and soon the gates of Hell will open.

Defcon 1 - Full Scale Nuclear War

Humanity's most terrifying nightmare has become reality. Bombs are detonated, missiles are launched, counterstrikes are ordered, and within minutes, untold thousands of megatons have left countless millions dead or dying. Devastation of biblical proportions has fallen over the land...and the USA has been hit the hardest.

Now the survivors are on their own....

The death toll is incalculable. Following the devastation, there is no law, no power, no communication. But there are survivors. And now the real battle begins, on the ground, hand to hand, person to person. Can those who remain survive long enough to rebuild a world...or will it just take a little longer for them to die?

©2018 Tim Washburn (P)2018 Tantor

Typical cookie cutter story

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

This book was average. Nothing truly imaginative. The typical, bad thing happens and the majority of the world goes mad max almost overnight. I could of use a little more character development or story. Overall, average.

Would you be willing to try another book from Tim Washburn? Why or why not?

I would give Washburn another try. His writing style is excellent and flows well and is easy to listen too.

meh

Unnecessarily sexist in its male saviors of incapable women and teens. overuse of the word "shuffling" to describe people's movements. Narrator's accents were terrible.

A great listen

Very enjoyable for a dark topic. Characters were "real" and reacted as a reader would expect.

Kept me on Edge

The detail coupled with individual stories was great. Kept my attention bringing me back to find what happened next. Ending was my only complaint as it seemed rushed with no real closure.

very good book.

this book makes you realize how bad the world would be if there was a nuclear war.

Not great, not bad

The end is just… BAM done. I feel like there wasn’t much for resolution to all of the conflict within the story. Others have stated they didn’t like the narrator, I didn’t mind him. I have heard much worse. As far as story, if this was truly a survival situation, I feel that there was not nearly enough “scavenging” of resources making it unbelievable. Guns and ammo will be in short supply and between all characters they left an arsenal just lay without simply picking them up. Overall, not a terrible story and decent for the genre.

Great story, but

Great story, but sorry - I just don’t care for this narrator. Even with noise cancelling headphones, this narrator is hard to hear sometimes and what feels to me like a bedtime story type delivery. The descriptions of the nuclear exchange, while not extremely graphic are chilling. The characters are well developed, and the story is not overly predictable, but is also very plausible.

Smuckers

Story is good. The narrator sounds like a Smuckers commercial. "because there's a delicious 15 megatons in every bite. Just like gramma used to make"

So so post apocalyptic read

It flows ok is about the best thing I can say.

With 4 competing storylines hard to develop any character or group to a point that you might actually care about their outcome.

All trials are handled easily enough and no real suspense or drama is raised.

Throw in more than a few logic lapses and you end up with a throwaway novel only good to kill some hours on a long drive

Great book

Loved the book kept me interested the whole way! Great interaction between all the characters .