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The Event

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.
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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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Great read and awesome narration..



I enjoyed this book a lot. It was about an invasion and the few people left on earth to save the billions of people taken by the aliens and put in containers and sent toward the sun so they could have earth.

The characters were great; Dean and Mary, Magnus and Natalia, and Mae near the end of the story, and Carey, Dean’s neighbor’s dog. A neighbor who didn’t make, along with billions of others.

Of course, this book left it open for the next book because Dean told everyone that “it wasn’t over, yet.”

There was no swearing to speak of and no sex so this book was definitely G-rated. And, unfortunately, G-rated books are really not my thing. In real life I’d expect a lot more swearing than “s**t” used two times when people are getting into all kinds of scary-crazy-dangerous-deadly situations. A good read but I won’t be moving on to the next book. This was written for YA and teens.

As to the narration: YAY! Luke Daniels! He’s simply wonderful. With voices and emotions.

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A book that pulls you in!

I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy this book after reading the reviews. But decided to go for it anyways. And I am glad I did. I love Luke Daniels and as always his performance was exceptional.

I found myself staying up late just to listen to one more chapter, which then lead to another one. I usually don't write reviews, but felt that I should because if you enjoy science fiction...and aliens, then this is the book for you.

Next in the series here I come 😁

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pretty good

this was a good book. you all should listen to it. thank you very much

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Finally and good book. No fast forward, no regrets

This story is very well done and was a very entertaining listen. I had been having a hard time finding something that was clicking with me. This book did it. Great Job!!!!

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Very interesting and well performed

Kept my attention. Great plot. Well preformed. Recommend it and look forward to more books by this author.

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Interesting indeed

The narrator was good I just think they should have had someone else to do the women's voice as well. Besides that this was the first book I have read about anything related to an alien invasion and I don't regret it one bit. I can't wait to continue the series!

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Couldn't stop listening

I had never heard of this book or it'e author but have always like Luke Daniels narration. The book was a suggestion and I am glad i bought it.
It is the story of the world's population (or nearly all of it) being abducted into space and the few left to rescue them. I iwll say no more as I HATE SPOILERS! There are twists and turn I did not see coming. Well written and enjoyable. I will definitely look for more books by Nathan Hystad.
No gore, no sex and no bad language but a very interesting story. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves science fiction! And of course, Luke Daniels did an excellent job too.

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Good, Entertaining, but not great

Of course, this story is much better than anything I could write. But it did seem overly complicated. Nice job on the character development.

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Good listen.

This was pretty cool. It had lots of humor, hardly any cuss words, very impressive, I didnt know Ametican authors could write without F words every other word. very entertaining. Very GOOD narrator.

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Worth the purchase

Listened to the first three books and will be grabbing the 4th & 5th as they become available on Audible. Save humanity,save earth,menacing aliens,secrets hidden in antiquity. What will you do? No pressure aye. :)
I found it a fun listen & Luke Daniels is always a good choice for narrator. It looks like this author's 1st series on Audible. I'll be looking for more in the future.


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