The Song of the Orphans

The Silvers Book Two

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Pub Date 04 Jul 2017 | Archive Date 25 Jul 2017

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The thrilling second novel in the category-defying Silvers trilogy—melding X-Men and the novels of Blake Crouch—about six extraordinary people who become unwitting refugees on an unfamiliar Earth, and their epic quest to find out why.

The end of the world was just the beginning for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from apocalypse by three mysterious beings, the sisters, along with four other refugees from their world, were each marked with a silver bracelet and transported to an entirely different Earth: a place where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances, as well as by their very own hands—and a place where terrifying new adversaries seem to be around every corner.

Now, after six months in this alt-America and a tumultuous cross-country journey that landed them in New York City, the Silvers find themselves in more trouble than ever. Their new world is dying, and a clan of powerful time benders believes that killing them is the only way to stop it. To make matters worse, the U.S. government has sent its most ruthless covert spy agency to track and capture them. But the biggest threat of all comes from the three god-like beings who first saved them. They had a reason for bringing the Givens and their friends to this world. And when the Silvers learn the awful truth, nothing will ever be the same.
The thrilling second novel in the category-defying Silvers trilogy—melding X-Men and the novels of Blake Crouch—about six extraordinary people who become unwitting refugees on an unfamiliar Earth...

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ISBN 9780399164996
PRICE $30.00 (USD)
PAGES 752

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A fantastic followup, The Song of the Orphans is a wonderful read. Alternate history meets X-men and Doctor Who, I loved this book and will be recommending it to my customers.

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I was a huge fan of The Flight of the Silvers and couldn’t wait for the next book in the series to come out. Given how epic the worldbuilding was in the first book, and how complicated it is to use time in all its incarnations as a large part of the plot, I was willing to wait.
And the wait was more than worth it as Price delivered 752 pages of mind-bending drama.

I’m generally not one for chase or fight scenes, but rarely in this book am I tempted to skim as skip over these sections of the story as each scene was either full of details and rules that could only exist in this particular world, or there were sneaky little clues about other important characters that were worth minding.

In the first half of the book I started getting a little worried about inconsistencies- why would this character do this? Why is this a thing? But over the course of the rest of the book some answers were provided in a satisfying way, and those few lingering questions don’t feel irksome as we prepare ourselves for the eventual third book. Many plotlines are resolved, while setting up next steps for the main characters that left me eager once again to keep reading more of the series.

If you haven’t read the first book, I highly recommend that you do.
If you have read it then I think you’ll be pleased with the character growth, the expansion of the already vast and interesting world, and the new info about the Pelletiers.
Price has shared on social media that if you’re thinking of rereading the first book, wait until after you read the new one as information shared in this one will shed a new light on the previous book.

And without spoiling anything I have to share that when I reached the final pages I cried.
I had become so invested in these characters and like many of them, keep hoping for the best. Price also does an amazing job of weaving the majesty of The Beatles into his work, and it’s never a finer piece of work than in those last few pages.

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