Review of The Game: Crash by Eve Silver

Advance Review of Eve Silver's The Game: Crash

Release Date: June 9th, 2015

Synopsis as found on Amazon.com:


Fans of the 5th Wave series will devour the pulse-pounding conclusion to The Game trilogy by bestselling author Eve Silver, about teens pulled in and out of an alternate reality where battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and death.


As her dad and best friend lie dying in the hospital, Miki is almost certain the Committee is trying to sabotage her life. The Game is glitching. The missions are more frequent, the alien Drau more deadly, and whatever has been tracking her thoughts more intrusive. The only thing holding Miki together is her boyfriend, Jackson, but somehow telling him how much she needs—and loves—him feels like the most terrifying challenge of all.


Can Miki and Jackson make it through the final mission alive and win the Game before the walls between their alien-fighting nightmares and the real world come crashing down? Or will the world and everyone Miki loves disappear forever?


Crash is the fiercely satisfying conclusion to a trilogy Pittacus Lore, New York Times bestselling author of the I Am Number Four series, raves is packed with "thrilling action and addictive romance—a mind-bending rush of a read!"


Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:


A thrilling action/suspense novel for fans of The Fifth Wave about contemporary teens pulled in and out of an alternate reality where battling aliens is more than a game—it's life and death.

Miki’s life is falling apart around her. Her dad and best friend are lying in the hospital. The Game is glitching, making missions more frequent and more deadly. And someone close to her is waiting for the right moment to betray her.

Miki feels like she’s hanging on by a thread and the only thing keeping her tethered is Jackson’s hand in hers. Yet telling him how much she needs him, how much she loves him, feels like the biggest challenge of all. And if Miki really wants the missions to end for everyone, she’ll have to let go and be ready to fight when the walls between the Game and reality come crashing down. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned, it’s that she’s got a whole lot left to lose.

Crash is the pulse-pounding conclusion to the Game trilogy fans won’t want to miss.


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Another series over... I'm not sure whether I should be sad or happy in the case of the finale for the Game series. I am sad that the series is over, but I was not as happy with book 3 as I was hoping I would be. Push was so incredible that I read it in a day... I couldn't put it down. Sadly, this book was lacking the drive from the beginning. Halfway through Crash, I actually thought that there would have to be a fourth book to properly end it, without rushing through and I am happy to say that I was right! I am in no way saying that Crash was bad. It just does not live up to my expectations in conjunction with her other 2 books.


I will say this, I was very happy with certain points of the book. At one point, there is a breakthrough discovery/ realization on the real reasons behind the existence of the Game. I loved the incorporation of that into the story. What I didn't like is where Silver took it after that.


Seeing as how this is an advance, I don't want to give too much away and ruin anything for those of you who are dying to read it.


Recommendations for similar series you may like if you liked The Game series:


Aliens:
Rick Yancey's The Fifth Wave
J Barton Mitchell's Conquered Earth
Gregg Rosenblum's Revolution 19


Gaming:
Carol Snow's Bubble World
Liana Liu's The Memory Key
Julia Durango's The Leveller
Claudia Gabel & Cheryl Klam's Elusion