Yesterday's Gone: A Kindle Serial

After my pleasant journey through The Scourge I was thrilled to delve into another Kindle Serial. Because I'm a sucker for deals I decided to spring for the first season of Yesterday's Gone when it came up as one of the daily deals. When I say "spring," I guess I mean take advantage of a no-brainer. The Kindle daily deals are my literary equivalent of buying a movie ticket. You throw a couple bucks at a story that sounds interesting and hopefully get a decent amount of enjoyment out of the experience.

Plot in a nutshell: Some mysterious event has occurred, causing a majority of the world's population to vanish. Those who are left struggle for survival and search for answers, observing other mysterious and ambiguous changes in the world... and themselves. In typical disaster/survival fashion there's rampant drama over who to trust, whose lead to follow and sudden revelations that make for outstanding cliffhangers between episodes of this serial.

Well, if Yesterday's Gone was a movie it would be VERY long. Not in a bad way exactly. It would remind me of The Godfather (provided you hadn't read the book before seeing the movie). As I recall you're a good hour or so into the The Godfather Part 1 before Vito gets shot the key incident that triggers the rest of the plot. I did a little research before starting Yesterday's Gone and it sounds like this is regarded as one of the top Kindle Serials to date. At first this seemed like high praise  but by the end of the first episode (the episodes for this serial seem quite long by the way, again long in a good way) I was hooked on the plot and eager to keep rolling.

Since many reviews compared Yesterday's Gone to the TV series Lost, I wasn't too surprised when the story began with countless unexpected/unexplained things happening and little resolution. The only part that made this difficult was keeping track of numerous character/plot lines. This is probably intentional to keep me from seeing something completely obvious that's going on under my nose. I'll do my best not to spoil it any any future reviews.

I'm not quite completely through the first season, and almost certain to buy the others once I finish (I believe there are three seasons total). I've found myself attaching to characters and story lines as they progress and merge. I still have far more questions than answers (I have no idea what happened yet, and even less of an idea what may happen next) but I'm attached to the characters and captivated by the story.