Across the Universe
Author: Beth Revis
Publisher: Razorbill
Publication Dates: Jan. 11, 2011
Pages: 398
Series: Across the Universe, book one
Source: Purchased
About the Book: 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.
My Thoughts: Before I started blogging I would have laughed at you if you said I would rush right out and buy a book that takes place in space on it’s release day. But that’s exactly what I did with Across the Universe. I don’t know why I thought I didn’t like space or sci-fi books. I mean, I love Star Wars, Doctor Who, Stargate and such. I am so glad that the bloggers I followed raved about this book and convinced me to break out of the little reading box I had put myself in! I loved Across the Universe!
I was fascinated with the ways the people onboard Godspeed had changed and adapted to “suit” their environment and lifestyle. Some things we obvious changes that made sense. Other “adaptations” just seemed wrong to me. As Amy wakes and begins to learn about Godspeed and it’s inhabitants the reader sees that there is a reason for this. I was caught up in the secrets and lies all the characters had. I couldn’t get enough!
This book caught my interest from page one. After the first couple chapters I could not put it down. I cleared my schedule for the night and just read, read, read. I highly recommend Across the Universe to fans of all genres. Don’t be afraid of the “sci-fi” or “space” aspect. It’s and amazing story that contains danger and mystery amidst romance and the everyday occurrences of life and coming of age.
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