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    The Flight of the Silvers
    The Flight of the Silvers
    The Flight of the Silvers
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    The Flight of the Silvers

    Written by Daniel Price

    Narrated by Rich Orlow

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    A thrilling genre-bending saga about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from their own. Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious strangers, three fearsome and beautiful beings who force a plain silver bracelet onto each sister' s wrist. Within moments, the sky comes down in a crushing sheet of light and everything around them is gone. Shielded from the devastation by their silver adornments, the Givens suddenly find themselves elsewhere, a strange new Earth where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances. Soon Hannah and Amanda are joined by four other survivors from their world-- a mordant cartoonist, a shy teenage girl, a brilliant young Australian, and a troubled ex-prodigy. Hunted by enemies they never knew they had and afflicted with temporal abilities they never wanted, the sisters and their companions begin a cross-country journey to find the one man who can save them-- before time runs out. Brilliantly imagined and electrifying from the first page, The Flight of the Silvers is the thrilling first book in a genre-bending new series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 4, 2014
    ISBN9781470379650
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    • 5/5
      I love the world building in this story. Time travel is accessible in this book, consumable for all levels of sci-fi readers. The characters are wonderful and the story is captivating from the beginning!
    • 5/5
      Almost from the moment I picked this book up and read the first chapter, I couldn't put it down. It was fun, striking, and memorable, and such a ride that I never wanted it to end. I devoured the first 300 pages in about 36 hours--despite the fact that I was traveling and mostly reading when I should have been in bed--and finished it tonight, loosely 4 days after I picked up the 600 page book. I have no doubt that, had I been reading at home instead of traveling, it would have been a three day read, at most. Now, I'm only cursing the fact that I'm still in a hotel, hours from home, instead of standing beside my desk... where the sequel is already sitting, waiting for me to pick it up, which I'll do as soon as I get home.So, what's so wonderful here? This is a blend of suspense, science fiction, and character-driven drama that pulls you in from the first pages and maintains an inertia all its own, from start to finish. Price has done a marvelous job here of creating characters that seem drawn from both real life and comics--flawed, detailed characters with depth who readers can't help but care about, even in their worst moments. In blends of humor and action and suspense, he's managed the tangle of characters wonderfully--in fact, I can't remember when I last read a book with six main characters where each, to a person, was handled with care and depth, but without the action falling prey to chapters that read more tediously. Simply, that didn't happen here--throughout the book, I felt like I was on a roller coaster of fascinating wonder, and I loved nearly every minute.I will admit, there were maybe one or two moments when I was anxious to get past a certain chapter/section so I could get back to the main characters of the book, but for the most part, I only ever wanted to keep reading, and reading, and reading, but in the hope that the book would last. In fact, I got to page 594, realized I was at the end and that the last pages of the book were promotional, and turned to my husband to say with a pout, 'It ended early!' Not because the ending wasn't satisfying... but simply because I wanted to keep reading. For readers who want character-driven suspense melded with their science fiction, or who love X-Men or dystopian books or apocalyptic fiction, you'll want to read this; Flight of the Silvers is all of this, none of it, and more.Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely: I recommend it.
    • 4/5
      This is not the type of book that I'd normally read, but there was just something so interesting and unique about the book summary that I was eager to read this. The Flight of the Silvers is advertised as genre-bending and I agree with that, but if I had to categorize this book I'd call it (as the author does in his acknowledgments) a supernatural epic. Readers begin this book meeting the Given sisters (Amanda and Hannah). At no point in this book did I like both of the Given sisters. At first I liked Hannah and hated Amanda but quickly started to like Amanda and hate Hannah. Every other Silver I liked throughout the book (even David). I liked that the Given sisters weren't perfect and had their own problems. To be honest it sounds weird but I liked that I hated one of the sisters at all times.Be prepared to settle in for a long, and sometimes emotional ride when reading this book. You start the book getting to know the characters and this strange new Earth they find themselves in, and you go with them as they struggle to understand these new abilities they have and fight off multiple enemies. While I was very interested in this story and the characters, this story did seem pretty long. Maybe that is because I feel like this book was building up to this big revelation at the end and while there was a revelation at the end it didn't seem like there was much of an ending to the book. It felt like I just pressed pause on the story. I understand that this is the beginning of a series but I felt like with all of this buildup there should have been some resolution to something. I've grown quite attached to the Silvers and look forward to reading about what happens to them next. If you're looking for an adventure that will leave you desperate for more, then this is the book for you.Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for letting me read this.
    • 4/5
      I love this book. It has so much going for it - Believable characters, a well-reasoned world, bad guys that are actually believable, and on top of it, a very well written story. You don't often find a book that actually manages to get it right!Parallel worlds stories are favourites of mine - and it is so easy to fall into certain stereotypes, such as having an alternate you, even thought the world is completely different (I'm looking at you, Fringe!) Also, I find that many times, the mechanism of parallel worlds are also badly written - but in this case, the author has clearly thought of the physics. You can probably make a case that the science behind the control of time is far-fetched, but hey- any story of this sort is not necessarily based on today's modern science.The author is new, and I want him to succeed, so go, read the book, if you like it, tell your friends. That is all. Carry on with your life.
    • 5/5
      Loved this novel. The end of the world(s) was never such fun! Parallel timelines, excellent world-building, well-developed characters, witty word-play, action and suspense. Delightful!
    • 4/5
      “Time stopped on the Massachusetts Turnpike.”That’s the first line of Daniel Price’s refreshing novel The Flight of the Silvers*, one of the most entertaining time-travel stories I’ve read in years. This first line signals not only that we’re in for some weird time-bending stuff but also that the author is interested in realism, not just the fireworks of mind-bending world-building. (Don’t worry, there’s that, too.)As children, two sisters, Amanda and Hannah, witness time stand still when three mysterious and quite possibly malevolent strangers inexplicably rescue them from a — relatively speaking of course — mundane accident (near Chicopee, for my fellow Mass Pike-goers).Seventeen years later, Amanda and Hannah are as different as two sisters can be, and yet, they, along with four strangers, are rescued from the end of the world by the silver bracelets snapped over their wrists by the same shadowy figures from the Massachusetts Turnpike.Then the really weird stuff begins.In their new world, which, refreshingly, is neither utopia nor dystopia, just a topia (ok, alt-topia), the six strangers navigate an America they don’t understand (that’s where the very cool world-building comes in) and personal powers that surprise and shock them. (I don’t want to give too much away, but think X-Men meets time travel meets Terminator 2. Kinda.) The forces tracking them are powerful in different ways, and are largely unfriendly, to say the least: the menacing, powerful strangers who saved them from apocalypse; an FBI-type agent hoping not to get an NSA-like agency involved; a group of strangers with their own superpowers and everything to lose; and a psychopath from their own America with a nasty grudge.Two squabbling, sisters, one recovering alcoholic, one boy genius with possible sociopathic tendencies, one teenage girl, and one cynical comic-book artist attempt to evade them all without losing themselves in the process. While The Flight of the Silvers is a rollicking and often funny piece of speculative fiction, Mr. Price also asks questions about community, isolation, family, and immigration that figure prominently in our own place and time.And a final word to the wise, dear readers: The Flight of the Silvers is the first in a multi-part series, and from where I sit, there’s no way it won’t become a film franchise.*My thanks to Blue Rider Press for sending a review copy of The Flight of the Silvers.
    • 4/5
      Another excellent novel (I just finished "The Martian" by Andy Weir on 6/3)that kept me up until 5:00 a.m. this morning. An interesting take on the multiple universe concept with clever sub plots, nice character development and loads of really nasty bad guys (or are they misunderstood good guys ?). I won't reveal anything more but it was another great read.
    • 5/5
      I really, really enjoyed this book. The Flight of the Silvers focuses on a group of 6 characters who have all been chosen by the mysterious Pelletiers to survive the end of their world and arrive in a parallel one. These characters realize shortly after a brief orientation to their new world that they now possess a "weirdness," an ability they didn't have before. Some have premonitions, another can affect age, while others utilize a matter called tempis. These six characters, the Silvers, come under attack by people with similar abilities, as well as by the defensive forces of the new world, and must band together to survive and to realize why they were chosen by the Pelletiers. Price was able to create an entire new universe in this book and really developed the characters well, considering that he had six main characters, along with a number of reoccurring supporting characters. I was immediately sucked into the world he created and found myself thinking about the book constantly during the short periods when I had to put it down. I am hooked. Bring on book two!
    • 5/5
      When I picked this up, I didn't realize it was the start of a series. That started to become clear within maybe 100 pages of the end. Usually I'm disappointed when that happens, but in this case, really, I can hardly wait for the next book.A small group of people, mostly strangers to each other (except that 2two are sisters) get snatched at the last moment from their life in San Diego as the world comes to a crashing end. They find themselves in an alternate San Diego, different but achingly, for them, the same. They get rounded up by some science institute that was expecting their arrival but didn't know where they had come from or how they got there. The science institute feels like a safe place to them as they try to help the scientist learn what happened to them and they slowly learn about their new world.And a strange world it is. In the new San Diego, time seems a bit out of joint. There are devices which look like microwave ovens that can turn back time for what ever you put in them. There is a suit you can wear that allows you to speed up your body, kind of like The Flash. Cars can fly using some time bending device. But thats not the strangest. They themselves can manifest some of these time-bending abilities with out the use of a machine. David can make images of the past appear; Mia gets notes from her future self and can sent notes to her past self; Hanna can run like the wind; Zach can speed up or reverse the flow of time in an object; etc. They slowly learn to control their abilities and get to know each other until a violent attack on the Institute sends them on a chase across an alternate America to New York where future Mia told them they can find safety and answers.There's a lot of confusion in this story. Another guy, Evan, who originally was part of their group has the ability to relive events and is tormenting them for some reason; there is a small group of very powerful people, the ones who saved them in the first place, who jump into and out of their lives; there's people native to this world who have powers similar to their own who are trying to kill them; there's a federal agency after them; Mia's notes from the future sometimes help them some times confuse them. The whole plot seems at times that it's going to fly apart but Daniel Price manages to hold it all together while keeping our interest as well.Price starts to reveal mysteries to the reader the closer the group gets to New York but has reserved plenty for the next book.
    • 4/5
      Thanks for a copy of the book from Goodreads First Reads!The Flight of the Silvers is a strong start to a trilogy. It is also rather hefty with 600 pages. The author indicates that his editor trimmed the book down, and I'd like to thank her for that!The Flight has everything that one could hope for in a sci-fi epic: the well developed characters and worlds, the sci-fi mysteries, superhero powers, conflicts and dilemmas, love interests, quests, even cops and super-beings. All these elements are penned nimbly by Price, whose use of IT analogies struck me as a bit annoying at times, but who managed to keep a consistent level of writing for 600 some pages, which is not a small feat Some plot efforts seemed heavy-handed, like some of the false foreshadowings were so obvious that it was difficult to believe them as messengers of things to come. Certainly, the book is character-driven, as much as it is an action-packed sci-fi novel, and inevitably there is a lot of repetition in 600 pages. The jealous observations of the Given sisters are repeated ad nauseam, for example, so is David's lack of morals, and Mia's constant lack of self-esteem. Though these remain true to the characters and help drive the plot, I think they could have been further trimmed down. By page 200, we get that Hannah is a well endowed man-magnet, and Amanda is an uptight Christian, and that when they meet a guy or are reevaluating a guy, they swim in their own jealous venom, thinking the worst of each other. I am not sure this needs to be replayed each time, over and over. Perhaps once every 200 pages is enough?Though character struggles are repetitive at times, action adventure is certainly a novelty at every page turn in this novel. The twists keep coming, and some are rather surprising. There is a lot of violence, and after a while, I found the remorse of five of the Silvers a bit tiring (I suppose, I am a David?) I do find it difficult to believe that 5 out of 6 people would remain remorseful as many people actively try to kill them. Perhaps I do not carry as much optimism for the human race as Daniel Price does.Overall, The Flight of the Silvers is a great adventure well worth the time. Recommended for those who like muscles, flying cars, and troubled superheroes.
    • 1/5
      As weak and preposterous as the last season of “Heroes. Argh. What a waste of time and attention