Miki Jones has been going through life pretending to have emotions ever since her mother died. That all changes when Miki is pulled from her life into an alternate world where Drau, terrifying aliens, are threatening to abolish human life as we know it in the real world. Paired up with a group of other teens that have also been pulled from their lives, Miki at first doesn't believe what's going on, no matter what Jackson, the groups unofficial leader, tells her.
Miki has more questions than imaginable but no one is willing to give her any answers. Though the majority of the players don't know each other in real life, Miki goes to school with Jackson and Luka, another member of the team who won't answer any of Miki's numerous questions. When the game takes a deadly turn, Miki realizes what's truly at stake, and if she doesn't start to take things seriously, there's more to lose than just her life.
I very much enjoyed reading Eve Silver's RUSH, the first book in her new Game series, but I admit, after finishing it, I did have to question why. The premise is unexplained for most of the book and I still have no clue why the alternate reality is set to play like a video game where you're only alive as long as you have health. If Silver was going to go with a video game theme story, did she forget that regardless of how many times you die in a video game, the player returns again and again until you ultimately complete the game? Then there's the love triangle, which just seemed so forced. Heck, by the end of the book, I think a third of that triangle forgot he was even supposed to be into Miki. Miki's best friend comes across as a classic frenemy and all you want to do is ask yourself why these two are friends.
Now, even after all that, if you asked me did I enjoy reading RUSH, I would have to say absolutely. Regardless of how unbelievable the premise or how weak the world building, Silver does what she does best; she wrote an action-packed story that'll keep you entertained and engaged with what's going on. Hopefully book two will answer more questions and have better character development because I will, without a doubt, be picking it up when it comes out.
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 gameβit'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 lobbyβpulled 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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