Format: Kindle
Genre: Sci-Fi YA
Source: Personal Copy
Source: Personal Copy
Published: January 11th 2011 by Razorbill
My Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
My Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
From Goodreads.com
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone – one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship – tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed’s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there’s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
Before I started Across the Universe, if you had asked me? I would have said “No, I do not like Science Fiction.” But now, I am not so sure. In fact? Beth Revis may have turned me into a fan of the genre.
The opening Chapter, with Amy and her family being frozen is one of the creepiest things I have ever read. (I have had an odd fear of being frozen, ever since I watched my one and only episode of Star Trek at a somber party in third grade.) And as Amy is freezing, she overhears the workers talking about an extra year – she was prepared for 300 years, but 301 is just too much.
Once we fast forward and board the Godspeed 250 years later, I could not put this book down. The world that Beth created on the ship is both fascinating and frightening. The characters are real, and the plot moves quickly and has enough twists to keep you guessing.
There’s one plot point that I found predictable, but it didnt take anything away from the story, and the even bigger twist that followed had me floored.
I would recommend Across the Universe to anyone and everyone. Now, I have to run out and purchase A Million Suns! (It comes out today – January 10, 2012!)
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I LOVED this book! I am reading A Million Suns right now!
i loved this 2 hoping i can get book2 soon
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