DRYP: Revelation cover art

DRYP: Revelation

The DRYP Trilogy, Book 2

 Preview

Get 30 days of Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30-day free trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

About this listen

A catastrophic plague pandemic with a one-in-a-million survival rate. A mysterious radio code that precedes the disappearance of survival colonies. A desperate fight to save the remaining survivors from annihilation.

After fleeing Los Angeles during the last, desperate throes of the DRYP pandemic, medical resident Susan Barry and critically injured oil company executive Alan Wheeler know their toehold on survival in rural Liberty Valley won't last. They need food, fuel, and help. At first, they reach out to other survivors by radio, but when a mysterious code starts, the other survival colonies disappear from the air one by one.

Are the encrypted messages and the disappearances related? As Susan, Alan, and their fellow survivors race to crack the code, one thing becomes clear: something or someone is out to destroy the last of surviving humanity. The question is who and why - and will the Liberty Valley survivors find out in time to make a stand?

©2022 R.A. Scheuring (P)2022 Podium Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Medical Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Survival Disappearance
All stars
Most relevant
i l9ved the first book, and the logical progression to the secong book was even if a bit predictable, still very enjoyable. Gives The Stand vibes with good execution on charactrrs and world-building. Can't eait for the third book!

Amazing setup, good execution

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I quite liked this story and it’s interesting, but I have a few quibbles:

The main characters make some bizarre decisions and Susan is a complete doormat. The ending is so weird that I rewound, thinking I had skipped some chapters in error, but no: One minute there’s a HUGE problem, then poof, it’s all over - at least for the moment…

Meanwhile, the author seems to have forgotten that Etta needs three kinds of medication on a regular basis, which was a major problem to be solved in book one. In this instalment Etta is skipping around like a young gazelle and, whilst it’s great to see an older character making an effective contribution, the failure to explain her sudden recovery is annoying!

I will get the next instalment in the series, despite the above, as it’s well-written, and, even though it’s pretty obvious what is going to happen next, I feel quite invested in a happy outcome !

Not bad, despite the robotic narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved all of it. The characters felt like you knew them and the description of what was happening was so beautiful written , you could picture every part.

Brilliant character writing - feels like you know them.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book was dull and meandering, dragging along without real tension or purpose. It leans heavily on tired, sexist stereotypes — men hunt and fight while women exist only to nurse injuries, raise children, or serve as breeding stock. The only physical descriptions given are about the size of women's breasts.

Tries to rip off The Stand by Stephen King, but it fails miserably.

Also, the narrator sounds like a bored munchkin who smokes 5 packs of cigarettes a day

Dull and Sexist

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed the first book and was looking forward to the follow up.. It’s the same as hundred’s of other books. Good guys, are dumb and naive. Bad guys are evil Genius’s
Formerly smart and resourceful people are now naive and gullible. It's not a bad story its worth a listen tho a little frustrating at times

Same old trope

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.