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The Forgotten Apocalypse
The end of the world came with fire, famine, and silence—Marine Gunnery Sergeant Zain Pratt, begins each day relearning the terrible truth. With a traumatic brain injury, Zain’s memory resets with each sunrise, his memory wiped clean. Driven forward by a single tattered photograph and a fragile thread of hope, Zain attempts to stitch together the fragments of his shattered life, one journal entry at a time—until a terrible series of events lead to a hidden community, desperate survivors and a haunting the line between hope and despair can vanish overnight.
As Zain walks the ruins of a desolate landscape, searching for a family he does not remember, he must come to grips with a new normal. But in this harsh landscape, some truths are more dangerous than forgetting.
The Forgotten Apocalypse—where every day begins with the end of the world.
As Zain walks the ruins of a desolate landscape, searching for a family he does not remember, he must come to grips with a new normal. But in this harsh landscape, some truths are more dangerous than forgetting.
The Forgotten Apocalypse—where every day begins with the end of the world.
251 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2025
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October 21, 2025
WHAT A GENUINE ORIGINAL TWIST OF A POST-APOCALYPTIC TALE
☆☆☆☆☆ +
I really wish I could give this book a higher rating than a five-star rating.
The Forgotten Apocalypse by S.A. Ison is without a doubt going to soar to the top of the charts for the best of the best books of 2025. It's well-written, action-packed, intriguing, and with a unique twist to a post-apocalyptic tale that will touch and pull at your heartstrings as one Marine Vet works to find himself and who he is.
Imagine waking up after years on the road, basically walking around in a state of confusion with a severe case of amnesia that has left you with no memories of your past, and the little bit of knowledge you obtain each day is lost the next morning. You wake up not knowing where or who you are, how you got there, or who or even if you have loved ones. That's what I call living a life of real hell. Add to that, the world you find yourself in is a post-apocalyptic nightmare.
S.A. Ison writes with a voice that will draw you into the story as if you are right there next to the characters sharing their accomplishments and their losses. The cast are everyday people with everyday problems that are easy to relate to. She paints a picture with her words that will leave you believing you can see the landscape, taste the food, smell the body odor radiating from the characters, and feel their pain and joy.
Her books are full of insights on how to provide for yourself and your loved ones and friends provided you are willing to put the hard work into hunting, gathering plant foods in your local environment, planning and growing a garden, scrounging supplies, and bonding within your community to pull together to provide needed resources and develope trade be it resources or labor so everyone prospers.
It takes everyone, young and old, to come together to build and maintain a thriving community. Without the cooperation of everyone pulling together, the community will not function and everyone will suffer and S.A. Ison has written that lesson into a captivating story that will leave you with a sense that there is hope out there even if everything else around you has gone to hell in a basket.
The lesson that hit me the hardest was coffee or lack thereof of in a post-apocalyptic reality has to be one of the worst things to experience with only the loss of life, all the death and destruction, and the mere hardships and loss rates higher. So, if you are anything like me, I highly recommend you start stocking up just in case. :-)
S.A. Ison has quickly become one of my favorite authors. Her books highly appeal to me. They're not only entertaining but educational too. If you enjoy post-apocalyptic stories, time travel novels, romance, and action-packed thrillers, you will not go wrong with any of her books and once you read one you'll be hooked and find yourself reading each and every one she's written.
If you're interested in a great thrilling, action-packed story with just enough intriguing twists and turns, with characters that have high morals and place their lives on the line for those who are unable to defend themselves, you will truly enjoy reading this book. I know I really enjoyed reading it and can't wait until S.A. Ison releases her next masterpiece to add to the long list of previous great books and series.
Quotes:
"Safety has always been an illusion. Life is life and whatever comes, we just have to adapt."
☆☆☆☆☆ +
I really wish I could give this book a higher rating than a five-star rating.
The Forgotten Apocalypse by S.A. Ison is without a doubt going to soar to the top of the charts for the best of the best books of 2025. It's well-written, action-packed, intriguing, and with a unique twist to a post-apocalyptic tale that will touch and pull at your heartstrings as one Marine Vet works to find himself and who he is.
Imagine waking up after years on the road, basically walking around in a state of confusion with a severe case of amnesia that has left you with no memories of your past, and the little bit of knowledge you obtain each day is lost the next morning. You wake up not knowing where or who you are, how you got there, or who or even if you have loved ones. That's what I call living a life of real hell. Add to that, the world you find yourself in is a post-apocalyptic nightmare.
S.A. Ison writes with a voice that will draw you into the story as if you are right there next to the characters sharing their accomplishments and their losses. The cast are everyday people with everyday problems that are easy to relate to. She paints a picture with her words that will leave you believing you can see the landscape, taste the food, smell the body odor radiating from the characters, and feel their pain and joy.
Her books are full of insights on how to provide for yourself and your loved ones and friends provided you are willing to put the hard work into hunting, gathering plant foods in your local environment, planning and growing a garden, scrounging supplies, and bonding within your community to pull together to provide needed resources and develope trade be it resources or labor so everyone prospers.
It takes everyone, young and old, to come together to build and maintain a thriving community. Without the cooperation of everyone pulling together, the community will not function and everyone will suffer and S.A. Ison has written that lesson into a captivating story that will leave you with a sense that there is hope out there even if everything else around you has gone to hell in a basket.
The lesson that hit me the hardest was coffee or lack thereof of in a post-apocalyptic reality has to be one of the worst things to experience with only the loss of life, all the death and destruction, and the mere hardships and loss rates higher. So, if you are anything like me, I highly recommend you start stocking up just in case. :-)
S.A. Ison has quickly become one of my favorite authors. Her books highly appeal to me. They're not only entertaining but educational too. If you enjoy post-apocalyptic stories, time travel novels, romance, and action-packed thrillers, you will not go wrong with any of her books and once you read one you'll be hooked and find yourself reading each and every one she's written.
If you're interested in a great thrilling, action-packed story with just enough intriguing twists and turns, with characters that have high morals and place their lives on the line for those who are unable to defend themselves, you will truly enjoy reading this book. I know I really enjoyed reading it and can't wait until S.A. Ison releases her next masterpiece to add to the long list of previous great books and series.
Quotes:
"Safety has always been an illusion. Life is life and whatever comes, we just have to adapt."
October 4, 2025
Fantastic!
S.A. Is on is at the top of my auto buy list. Her books are always amazing and this one is no different. I loved the end! it did not end up where I expected when I started reading but it ended up where I wanted it to by the time I got a little over halfway through the book. Absolutely fantastic!
S.A. Is on is at the top of my auto buy list. Her books are always amazing and this one is no different. I loved the end! it did not end up where I expected when I started reading but it ended up where I wanted it to by the time I got a little over halfway through the book. Absolutely fantastic!
February 3, 2026
I won this book in a giveaway. Forgotten Apocalypse hit me way harder than I expected. It’s not just another end‑of‑the‑world story — it’s raw, emotional, and surprisingly human. Following Zain through this broken world feels so real that you can’t help getting attached to him and everything he’s fighting for.
The writing pulls you in with this mix of danger, memory, and hope, and by the time you reach the end, it leaves you with that heavy, aching feeling in your chest. It’s one of those books that sticks with you long after you’re done, the kind you keep thinking about because of how deeply it made you feel.
If you want a post‑apocalyptic story that’s emotional, character‑driven, and unforgettable, this one is absolutely worth it.
The writing pulls you in with this mix of danger, memory, and hope, and by the time you reach the end, it leaves you with that heavy, aching feeling in your chest. It’s one of those books that sticks with you long after you’re done, the kind you keep thinking about because of how deeply it made you feel.
If you want a post‑apocalyptic story that’s emotional, character‑driven, and unforgettable, this one is absolutely worth it.
October 10, 2025
EMP has made the world like a yoga retreat, only with more screaming and less "Namaste"
Okay, so some evildoers send explodey - type thingies over towards the US, and everywhere else maybe, except for Australia 'cos let's face it, everyone loves us Aussies. The blowy-up missiles are the EMP type that fry all our cars, planes and selfy-takers (...oh no 😬!), so we're all left wondering where our next Big Mac is coming from, and even worse, how we'll survive without Instagram. Mayhem reigns and we all better get our gun-smarts on, and watch out for falling planes!
Into the middle of this muddle, comes our hero Zain, who, like 50 First Dates, wakes up every morning not knowing nuthin' about his former life and has to write down his memoirs before the next day. Could come in handy if you were the "borrowing" type. Luckily for him, he has some Marine instincts from being in the Marines (d'uh). Now he's gotta find his philandering honey and the kids.
Meanwhile, his philandering honey has found herself so far away, she'll have Buckley's chance of finding Zain. So life starts anew for our couple...and everyone else.
It's an original and interesting plot. The action keeps you going and at times, the killy bits are confronting, but that's life in the post-apocalypse. The editing was good but still just a few tiny oopsies remain.
I liked it. 4.5 stars.
Okay, so some evildoers send explodey - type thingies over towards the US, and everywhere else maybe, except for Australia 'cos let's face it, everyone loves us Aussies. The blowy-up missiles are the EMP type that fry all our cars, planes and selfy-takers (...oh no 😬!), so we're all left wondering where our next Big Mac is coming from, and even worse, how we'll survive without Instagram. Mayhem reigns and we all better get our gun-smarts on, and watch out for falling planes!
Into the middle of this muddle, comes our hero Zain, who, like 50 First Dates, wakes up every morning not knowing nuthin' about his former life and has to write down his memoirs before the next day. Could come in handy if you were the "borrowing" type. Luckily for him, he has some Marine instincts from being in the Marines (d'uh). Now he's gotta find his philandering honey and the kids.
Meanwhile, his philandering honey has found herself so far away, she'll have Buckley's chance of finding Zain. So life starts anew for our couple...and everyone else.
It's an original and interesting plot. The action keeps you going and at times, the killy bits are confronting, but that's life in the post-apocalypse. The editing was good but still just a few tiny oopsies remain.
I liked it. 4.5 stars.
did-not-finish
February 16, 2026(Copy obtained for free via Goodreads Giveaway)
DNF - I really hate to be leaving a review having called it quits on this book as early as I did, but I'm truly baffled. This is definitely either written by AI or by an extremely unskilled writer with absolutely no one looking out for them, and considering how this author has published some 40-odd books since 2017, most of which were published from 2018 onwards (which is when GPT-1 became available) I wouldn't be surprised at all if it were the former. But that's just a theory.
Intolerably short, choppy sentences with early elementary school level wordsmithing and structure, with a side of utterly grating repetition. I made it 13 pages in before I couldn't stand it anymore.
The needless restatement issue is apparent as early as the prologue, where we're told that "Tomorrow, her husband, Zain, would forget them." On the next page, "When he awoke each morning, he had no idea who she was." On the next page, "Could she leave him? He'd never remember it..." The next page, "... though she knew he'd never remember her or the children..." No exaggeration, once per page, we are told the exact same thing in the first 4 pages of the book, and it just keeps going from there.
The last straw for me was on page 11 with "On the side of his head was a thick scar. He lifted his hand to his head and winced. There was a thick scar running along the side of his head. There was also a lump just under the scar. He noted his hair was long, the scar hidden beneath." Before launching into a multi-page long item by item nearly bullet-point breakdown of every single item in Zain's 3+ military grade purses, none of which contained even one more f**k I could give about reading any further.
From the little a could tolerate, I'm shocked at how highly rated not only this book but every single book from this author is, honestly. Sorry to be so harsh, I just have very strong feelings related to my experience trying to read this, and my honest opinion is that your time is more valuable than this.
DNF - I really hate to be leaving a review having called it quits on this book as early as I did, but I'm truly baffled. This is definitely either written by AI or by an extremely unskilled writer with absolutely no one looking out for them, and considering how this author has published some 40-odd books since 2017, most of which were published from 2018 onwards (which is when GPT-1 became available) I wouldn't be surprised at all if it were the former. But that's just a theory.
Intolerably short, choppy sentences with early elementary school level wordsmithing and structure, with a side of utterly grating repetition. I made it 13 pages in before I couldn't stand it anymore.
The needless restatement issue is apparent as early as the prologue, where we're told that "Tomorrow, her husband, Zain, would forget them." On the next page, "When he awoke each morning, he had no idea who she was." On the next page, "Could she leave him? He'd never remember it..." The next page, "... though she knew he'd never remember her or the children..." No exaggeration, once per page, we are told the exact same thing in the first 4 pages of the book, and it just keeps going from there.
The last straw for me was on page 11 with "On the side of his head was a thick scar. He lifted his hand to his head and winced. There was a thick scar running along the side of his head. There was also a lump just under the scar. He noted his hair was long, the scar hidden beneath." Before launching into a multi-page long item by item nearly bullet-point breakdown of every single item in Zain's 3+ military grade purses, none of which contained even one more f**k I could give about reading any further.
From the little a could tolerate, I'm shocked at how highly rated not only this book but every single book from this author is, honestly. Sorry to be so harsh, I just have very strong feelings related to my experience trying to read this, and my honest opinion is that your time is more valuable than this.
November 23, 2025
I could not stop. So many tears, good and bad. An excellent read.
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