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Rush

Written by Eve Silver

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Rush pulls you headlong into the thrilling, high-stakes world of Eve Silver's teen series The Game, about teens pulled into and out of an alternate reality in which battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and death. This teen debut novel offers science fiction and gaming fans romantic thrills at a breakneck pace.

Seventeen-year-old Miki Jones's carefully controlled life spirals into chaos after she's run down in the street, left broken and bloody. She wakes up fully healed in a place called the lobby—pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game in which she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures.

There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says that the game is more than that, and that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival and the survival of every other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn't. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.

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Release dateJun 11, 2013
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Eve Silver

Eve Silver lives with her gamer husband and sons, sometimes in Canada but often in worlds she dreams up. She loves kayaking and sunshine, dogs and desserts, and books, lots and lots of books. The Game is Eve's first series for teens. She also writes books for adults.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Rush was a good read! I am not salivating with a need to fangirl, but I enjoyed the ride Eve Silver took us on!

    The first thing I loved about the book was Miki Jones. She's sassy, a little messed up, and a stellar main characters. She's got a voice that's unique and had me flipping pages. Also, of course, I liked Jackson. Even though I normally get frustrated with the "I'm mysterious and will answer all of your questions in one syllable... or less" type. However, in Rush, his antics made me smile and generally curious. It helps that Miki is just as exasperated with him as we are. Also, inside he is pretty sweet. I liked learning his back story!

    The gaming aspect of the novel was awesome! I am not much of a gamer but it was super, super cool to learn terms. It was creative on the author's part! I do wish I got to learn more about the aliens... hopefully in the next book!

    Overall, I absolutely recommend Rush. There's action and humor and interesting characters. Also, it goes by so, so fast. The ending was like ...BAM!

    4/5 stars

    *Received for free in exchange for an honest review*
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A mix of sci-fi, gaming, teen angst, it was a good read, and beginning of another series. Miki who is recovering from an accident is pulled into a world of ghostly creatures, fighting battles with Jackson and friends, and when they come back to reality, its like a dream.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales.Quick & Dirty: Fun action packed story with compelling characters, an interesting plot, and a cool sci-fi setting. A great fit for gamer fans.Opening Sentence: My head jerks up.The Review:Miki has to have a certain amount of control over her life or things will fall apart. Her mother died of lung cancer a few years ago and nothing has ever been the same since. Her father drinks too much and Miki has shut down inside to ward off the pain. After school one day, Miki tries to save a deaf girl from getting hit by a truck and instead she ends up getting hit. When she wakes up she figures she is dead, but it turns out she has been pulled into some kind of game.Miki teams up with a few other teenagers and they have to fight The Drau, an alien race that is very violent and plans to take over the world. Once they have eliminated all their targets they are sent back to their normal life like nothing happened, and no matter how much time passed in the real world, they go right back to the moment they were pulled. Outside of the game they aren’t allowed to talk about it with anyone and Miki has so many questions. What is the purpose of the game? Is it real? If you die in the game do you really die? There is only one person that can answer her questions and that’s the infuriating gorgeous team leader, Jackson Tate.Miki is a good strong character. She has had a rough few years and she is dealing with things the best way she knows how. She is very smart and put together on the exterior, but inside she is just hanging by a thread. When things start to unravel out of control, Miki doesn’t know how she is going to stay grounded. The game gives her a purpose and she feels more alive than she has in years. But who controls the game and what are their real motives. She is a very independent person with a witty attitude. I found her easy to connect with and I really liked her.Jackson Tate is very hot and cold. One moment he will be sweet and attentive and the next he is completely ignoring you. He is gorgeous, but is a total mystery. He can be very charming when he wants to be, but he also can be a jerk. Miki finds Jackson infuriating, but she also can’t help but be very attracted to him. He has answers she desperately needs, but getting information from him is like pulling teeth. I loved Jackson. I found his character interesting and I am excited to learn more about him in the sequel.This was a fun action packed story with a unique idea. You are pulled into the story right away and I was captivated the whole way through. The gamer setting was interesting and different. The romance was sweet and developed slowly. The cast of characters were compelling and easy to like. The plot was full of twists that surprised me and kept me interested. The ending has a terrible cliffhanger which I didn’t particularly love, but it left me dying to get my hands on the next book. Overall, this was a very entertaining read and I would highly recommend it to fans of YA Sci-fi or gamer fans.Notable Scene:I see then that the door’s gone and in front of me are people. No … they aren’t people. They have limbs, hair, faces, but they aren’t human. After the first glance, they don’t look remotely human. They’re pure, painful white, so bright they throw off a glare. They look like they’ve been dipped in glass, smooth and polished, but fluid. And their eyes … they’re a silvery color, like the mercury in the old thermometer that my mom used to have at the side of the front porch.When I was ten, I knocked that thermometer off with my wooden kendo sword, shattering the glass. The little blobs of mercury went all over the porch. I was a kid. I didn’t know better. I touched them, prodding the little balls until they joined the bigger blob. My mom swooped down on me and snatched me away, telling me it was poison. It could kill me.I stare at the things in front of me: the Drau. I can’t look away.Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember Jackson talking about Medusa. Don’t look at their eyes.Their mercury eyes.They’re poison.They will kill me.FTC Advisory: Katherine Tegen Books/Harper Collins provided me with a copy of Rush. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Title: Rush (The Game #1)Author: Eve SilverRelease Date: June 11, 2013Publisher: Katherine Tegen BooksSource: Edelweiss DRCGenre(s): YA Fiction, YA Science Fiction, Alien Invasion, Video GamesRating: ★★★☆☆Review Spoilers: ModerateGoodReads | AmazonI’ve been meaning to get to this book for a while now but because I wound up in the hospital dying earlier this month I’m sorely behind on my June 2013 release reviews. I first found out about this book when I had a chance encounter with the author on Twitter regarding hotel reservations and San Diego Comic Con. So when I was approved for a copy over at Edelweiss I was pretty excited to see what Rush had to offer. Rush is Eve Silver’s first YA novel but she’s published over a dozen other novels for adults including a couple paranormal romance series for adults and a bad ass looking dystopian series called the Northern Wastes about a lady ice trucker.In the author’s own words, Rush has:Which is a fairly accurate description of this book in just ten words.Rush follows a teenage girl named Miki Jones whose life is completely upended by ‘The Game.’ They say no good deed goes unpunished and Miki’s decision to jump in front of a truck to save the life of a deaf child definitely earns her a very particular type of punishment. Instead of dying, Miki finds herself in a lobby preparing for a mission with a handful of other teenagers – two of whom she recoginzes from school. There is no time for any real explanation or training. One minute she’s on the street in her hometown walking home and the next she’s whisked away to fight aliens invading the planet.All she’s told is to stay back and not let her ‘con’ – or life bar – turn from green to red. Red and you’re dead. If you survive the mission, you’re healed and get to go back to your life in the real world. Die in the game and you die for real. Reality retcons back to when you should have died. Every moment you live after you join the game is almost unreal; it’s almost like borrowed time. And if you fail? Well. There goes humanity. These missions aren’t just about Miki and her team mates but the survival of the planet as a whole.Watching Miki try to adapt to this new part of her life is actually really interesting. But it’s also equally frustrating at times. All Miki – and the reader – wants are answers. Which the book is very hesitant to offer. Even having finished it I’m not entirely sure whether or not the game is real or not. I have a really had time understanding what’s going on and how the world building in this story actually works. Some things just don’t make sense. And unlike Miki I don’t have the attractive and enigmatic Jackson Tate or the equally alluring Luka to harass for information.What I did like, though, was how Miki’s friends sort reacted to her change in moods and the fact that she was hanging out with guys sort of blowing off her friends. Unintentionally, of course. It just happens that Miki and two of her team mates from the Game all live in the same time. That was pretty realistic – girls can just be bitches when you start hanging out with guys they’d like to bang. The book has some very striking moments of painfully realistic high school life and then it shifts into basically live-action Halo. Which is actually really interesting and the premise is fantastic. I just have a lot of questions that continue to go unanswered.That said, maybe the next two books in the trilogy – first Push and then Crash – will help explain some of the issues I had with the world building. This book tried but they sort of heavily packed the end of the book with information and exposition that probably should have come a bit earlier. Hopefully we’ll see a bit more character development, too. I liked the characters – from Miki to her friend Carly and to the other team mates we got to see sporadically in the game. But a lot of them deserved a bit more screen time and development. And a lot of the relationships seemed a bit flat. Really the only one that got any real traction was Miki and Carly’s and, well. Carly isn’t nearly as important in the grander scheme of things – at least not now. I have my suspicions that Carly might be something other than she seems…But I won’t spoil the book with my hypotheses!I really liked Rush and I think the idea of teenagers being pulled into a war with aliens in a video game styled way is pretty cool. I’m a gamer. I can dig it. I like that video games, gamers, and just the culture in general are getting a lot more notice these days. We’ve had a lot of really great books come out about video games and gaming. Rush manages to be one of them without really being a video game book per se. It’s a nice addition to the budding genre. And the book will keep you on edge waiting throughout all of the ‘down time’ for the next time Miki and her friends find themselves ripped out of their real lives by some unseen force. The action keeps you interested and keeps you waiting more.Check out Rush now and keep an eye out for Push in 2014.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I had so much fun reading this book. It was very different yet it captured me till the very last page.Plot: What would you do, if all of the sudden you popped into another world, where are game is played. A game where your life is a stake? I admit the first few chapters were very fast paced and with loads of questions popping in my mind.Who? What? Why? Where? Be patient, I told myself! I kept on reading and swiftly fell into the story. All the pieces come together little by little, keeping the reader fully entertained till the end.Love/Friendship: This part is particularly interesting because of the circumstances. You see, you have to ask the right questions. Wrong questions might get you killed. And seeing these characters tip toe around what to say or rather how to say it, left me very anxious. Every single friendship formed was on hinge of keeping each other close yet far away. You played to earn your keep. To stay alive. All I can say is, these friendship go further than what I thought.Big Picture: Once I settled into the story, the bigger picture came together and really I was stunned. At first I thought it had to do with government stuff but really goes way deeper than that. At the end all I thought was, “WOAH! ” It left me totally speechless and left me rattled. I turned the last page of the book thinking,” More.”An extraordinary tale that life played as game is more dangerous than you think, Rush presents a vivid tale that is engrossing. Detailed with fantastic world building, Rush is smart, engaging read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Rush, Eve Silver's debut novel, is a very unique take on an impending alien invasion. The novel follows Miki and other teens who are pulled from their every day lives to participate in missions, which are set up much like the missions in video games, complete with kill points and health/life meters, where they must exterminate an alien race called the Drau that seeks to take over planet Earth. At first, Miki is sure she's dreaming - or that the whole experience is some sort of elaborate hoax - but she soon discovers that the stakes are real... and deadly.One of the things I love about Rush is that it has obvious appeal for a wide variety of readers. There are video game elements, aliens, possible romance, lots of action, a fast pace, and an interesting cover that's relatively gender neutral. I like to think that boys could just as easily carry this book around (without fear of being teased for a girly cover) as a girl reader. Rush starts off quickly paced and never slows. In many ways, it read like a video game feels. In video games that engage players in missions, there is always something to pay attention to or something happening, information is slowly revealed at specific points, and there is always the fear or a surprise attack and character death: Rush is kind of like watching someone else play a video game with your character. You're invested in the characters and the story's events and you're constantly trying to snatch the controls back, but you can only look on and hope for the best.I'm hoping for more detail and information about the Drau in the future installments of The Game. By the end of Rush, readers have gathered some information about the players of The Game and their mission, but there are still many holes. Hopefully these things will be fleshed out in the subsequent books, since readers have met and formed bonds with the the players, which seemed to the be the focus of this first installment.I'll definitely be reading Eve Silver's next book. I'm very curious about what will happen to Miki next... things were really intense by the end of this first book. She has a lot of information to work through, but she was definitely shaping up to be a badass by the end of Rush!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I received a free ARC copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads.What would you do if you were pulled into a different place and told to fight aliens? What if you didn't win? In this case, you die.Miki Jones is having a normal, high school drama filled day until she tries to save someone from being ran over. She thinks she dies, but then she is pulled into a sort of game. There, she and other teenagers form a team and have to fight the Drau, a deadly alien species. She learns that once they complete the mission they were 'pulled' to do, they are pulled back to their normal lives, in the moment they left off from. However, there will be more missions and they will keep being pulled. If they die in the game, they die in real life. It took me a while to get into this book, but it was well worth it when I did. Miki and her friends start out immature, but Miki is pulled into the game in the second chapter, avoiding an overdose of that. In the game, she meets new people as well as people she vaguely knew of before in her normal life, Luka and Jackson. Luka is a kind and thoughtful character. Jackson is cocky and tortured. Naturally, a love triangle is formed. Thankfully, the love triangle does not take center stage in this story. My favorite part of this story was the plot. Some points were a tad predictable, but I really got into the alien idea the author had going. She kept the plot fairly intense, and I couldn't put it down by the last 100 pages. The ending is naturally a cliff-hanger, but it does make me eager for the sequel. Another thing I loved was Miki's character development. She comes a long way throughout this book. Even behind all the crazy alien action scenes, you see her at home with her widowed father, a broken man who is still trying to be a father. I was often touched by how much Miki cared for him and how it was killing her to see all the empty beer bottles he left around. Miki might actually be one of my top characters in terms of development that I've read. I hope to see more of that in the next book.Jackson, while a smidge overdone in his tortured-ness, was very lovable. I felt he truly respected Miki and pushed her to do her best. Luka was sort of on the back-burner, so much so that I almost wished he hadn't been made part of a love triangle. He's a great friend to Miki, and I think friendship fits them both far better than a romantic relationship, regardless of whether Jackson is there or not.While I enjoyed most of the secondary characters, I have little love for Carly, Miki's high school, normal best friend. She is immature and petty throughout the entire story. When Miki stands up to her, I absolutely love it, because Carly needs that. I know that many high school girls are like that, but I felt her character was made to fit that semi-stereotypical role and lacked depth. She does, however, make a good contrast for how Miki is maturing, and it was nice to see that. If you are unsure of this book and think aliens/gaming aren't your thing, I still encourage you to give it a try if you like non-contemporary YA. The story has a way of growing on you. If you love alien/gaming/action-y things, then I would highly recommend you give this a try. 4/5 stars.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    [A hardback copy was provided by the publisher for review purpose. Thanks HarperCollins!]"Game on, Miki Jones."—JacksonI've actually been eyeing this book for quite some time before giving it a try, first because it's uber-beautiful cover, and second because of its seemingly interesting concept. Honestly, I'm never a big fan of something alien-ish and sci-fi, but when Eve Silver applied it to a gaming concept? Now do count me in.Rush told us about Miki Jones as she was hit by a car while saving her classmate's sister, died, and then miraculously revived. But nothing ever comes without a price, and as Miki realized that her second live didn't come for free, she also saw that human might not the only things that lived on earth. That the existences of mankind might not last for long. That the aliens with a poisonous eyes called Drau might conquer it in a matter of years. But when the truth dawned on her, and she came into a realization that freedom might just be a pipe dream, what would Miki ultimately do?One thing I especially love from this book was how Eve Silver was able to keep the readers interested on every page—adding the life-and-death situation so we would read on to find out if the characters survive, or adding new things that intrigued us so we would seek for explanation—and made us feel like we couldn't flipped the page fast enough.The beginning was also really grabbing, not too full of tension that would make us lost and ask "What the hell is happening here?" but not too bland either. However, I think there were way too many characters being named in the beginning. We didn't get to know each one of them deeper even until the last page, and they were basically serving the exact same purpose. Or no purpose, if you ask me. Cut them from the story and it wouldn't do any real damage. And all them had this one same trait : so totally not memorable.The writing was unfortunately a bit choppy and didn't really flowed at first, but as the story goes, it became better. By the time I reached pages thirty or so, well, it became literally un-put down-able.I also love how Eve Silver decided to explained things by bringing us into the real situation rather than just info-dumping. We get to see what was happening by ourselves as well as understanding it bit by bit, and we also experienced the emotional ride by placing ourselves at Miki's head—who experienced it all for the first time.Then there was the ending. Honestly, Eve Silver, you're killing me with those cliffhanger. Just release the second book tomorrow maybe please? I'm already dying to read the continuation here.The character, I found, was a little bit mixed. The main one, like Miki and Jackson, were pretty great and likable.Miki Jones, as our main character, had an especially strong and distinct voice. Her narration was grabbing, and it's lovely to actually feel her personality on it, and not just a mere sentences. The minor things I didn't like from her though, was her stupidity at the earlier part of the book. So Jackson told her not to stare the Drau on the eyes, and yes, she really had to stare at it even when she had being told not to. And on top of that, she really had to do it twice. Nice.Jackson Tate, our other main character, was pretty well-developed too. His personality was deep and complex, and I love how his action from the beginning until the end of the book were connected with each other, and all of it has its own reason, not just "Oh, I want to do it so let's do it" kind of action. And his banter with Miki about his crypticness was very fun to read as well, presented in a healthy amount and not too many to make us bored.But, while the two central characters were shining, that's not really the case with the side.Some of them, like Luka and Tyrone and Richelle, had a decent amount of life inside them, enough for me to portray them. But the other one? Like Miki's friends, whoever their names are, and many more? Pretty much impossible to imagine.There's also some inconsistencies as well, especially on the character's trait. The best example would be Carly, Miki's best friend.She was first described as the so-called-peacemaker, and so I would expect her to play nice and being the girl-next-door type, right? But her branding and her actual attitude didn't really matched with each other. She played with her friend's interest, smoked even though she knew Miki's history, and so many more. Like, hello? If peacemaker behaved like that, I could totally be a peacemaker too.And the friendship between her and Miki didn't feel real too. In the narration it was said that they're like this kind of sister-friend. But when I see their friendship, really, it felt like, nothing. Their so-called closeness was practically nonexistent, and when they fought (For something as trivial as hot guy. Duh. That's sister-friend for you.) I honestly couldn't bring myself to care, because it simply wasn't real enough.But, while Miki's friendship sucks, that's not the case with her love life. I especially love how the romance between Miki and Jackson was not just kiss-and-hug-and-i-suddenly-love you kind of love. And there was no annoying love triangle too. I had actually braced myself to read Jackson-Luka-Miki's love at the beginning, but really, glad it didn't happened.While them getting together was sort of predictable the moment they met, the chemistry between Miki and Jackson felt so real and full of emotion, and I found it really easy for me to root for their relationship. Their shared moment was also cute and sweet, and while—thanks God—it's not a touchy-feely moment, it sure had me swooning all over.There's some things from this book though, that I didn't like even though I really enjoyed reading it. One : The trait's inconsistencies I mention above, being mot notable Carly's.Two : I also noticed that Miki tended to mention unimportant things in a dire moment. When the timing was good, it could really added the detail, sure. But when the tension was high, and then she noticed guy's abs or biceps? Then tension vanished. And then, ha, we can all swoon together.Good thing it happens only twice, thoughThree : It's also quite irritating to read the fact that all of Miki's friend—which was basically all her school life was about— seemed to only have one purpose of living : talking about boy. Really. Oh my gawd, like one of her friend said. Was it so important to swoon over, like, every single boy out there? Please.Overall, this book was quite an enjoyable read for me. Although there were some things that I found flawed, such as the unneeded characters and unneeded biceps-abs detail, they didn't make appearance that often, so it's actually quite tolerable. The way this book centered around Miki and Jackson also helped a lot in making this book enjoyable, and if you're looking for a fresh sci-fi reads with a hint of dystopia, completed with a strong narration, interesting concept and execution, and the captivating main character, this one is a must-try.