Dark One, Dan Wells
Dark One, Dan Wells
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Dark One
Forgotten

Author: Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson

Series: Dark One

Narrator: Sophie Oda, Kaleo Griffith, John H. Mayer, Nan McNamara, Jose Luis Bermudez, Jim Meskimen, Keith Szarabajka, William Elsman, Kelli Tager, Mia Barron, Rachel Jacobs, Roxanne Hernandez, Avery Waddell

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/10/2023


Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award–winning author Brandon Sanderson, and co-author Dan Wells, comes DARK ONE: FORGOTTEN, a true-crime fantasy audio series and the first entry in Brandon Sanderson’s new DARK ONE fantasy saga.

Every year in the United States there are fifteen thousand murders, give or take a few hundred. Of those, nearly forty percent go unsolved.

In this six-part audio series, Christina Walsh is determined to change that. After struggling with the loss of her father, she sets out on a journey to bring the justice that has eluded her to the families of other victims. And she starts with a particularly strange case. The murder
of world-renowned violinist Leona McPherson, who mysteriously disappeared years ago after a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. As Christina digs deeper, the story gets stranger. Leona was a prodigy, someone too good to be forgotten, but that’s exactly
what has happened. She’s been forgotten. Entirely. By everyone who knew her. From the gushing music critic in her hometown, to the detectives investigating her murder, even her own mother.

So Christina embarks on a cross-country mission, with her roommate Sophie, to figure out what happened to Leona. In the process she uncovers a trail of similar victims who have suffered the same fate. But if no one can remember the victims, how can the killer possibly
be caught? Christina’s only leads come from a crazed homeless man’s ramblings, a mysterious glass eye, and an otherworldly totem. Is Christina crazy or has she stumbled upon something so implausible it must be true?

About Dan Wells

Dan Wells writes a little bit of everything, but he is best known for the Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, the first book of which is now a major motion picture. He is a cohost of the educational podcast Writing Excuses, for which he won a Hugo Award, and now helps run a yearly, week-long writing conference. In addition to novels, novellas, and shorts, he has also written and produced a stage play, called A Night of Blacker Darkness, and works as a staff writer on the TV show Extinct. He has lived in the U.S., Mexico, and Germany, and currently resides in Utah with his wife and six children and 439 boardgames.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anna [Bran. San. Stan] on May 07, 2023

Wow, this was so much fun! I really don’t understand why this collaboration hasn’t gotten more attention. Dark One: Forgotten is an audio serial in the “style of a true crime six-episode podcast.” Before you go check out audible, it is important to know, going into this, that this mockumentary podca......more

Goodreads review by Nick on January 24, 2023

Ugh this was not for me. Maybe I can't do audio dramas, but the whole thing felt juvenile and the protagonists were cringey and insufferable.......more

Goodreads review by Stanley on January 10, 2023

I really hope this audio drama finds its audience because it was really good, but feels as if it has gotten lost with the recent release of Tress. I’m going to have to reread the Dark One GN to see where this sits, but it feels like this can easily stand on its own without having to read the GN, whi......more

Goodreads review by Shreyas on May 26, 2023

'Dark One: Forgotten' (Dark One #0.5) by Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells. Rating: 2.5/5. Review: Back in 2020, I read the Dark One (first volume) graphic novel when it was initially released in a limited run. It has been a long time since I last read it, and, as a result, I don't remember the intr......more

Goodreads review by Hans on April 14, 2023

This was a really fun listen! A Sanderson story, in the form of a true crime podcast.. If this is any indication of what the colaboration with Dan Wells is going to be like, i'm super excited. Excellent voice work by the actors playing the parts here, a good mystery with plenty of suspense, and a rea......more