Across the Universe by Beth Revis
RATING:****
SERIES: Across the Universe #1
GENRE: YA Dystopia/ Sci - fi
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. 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:
This book has a very unusual plot that has many twists and turns. It is set in outer space which is quite unique and interested. The idea of the people being frozen is also very awesome and this is what made me interested in the first place. It became very fast paced but was quite slow to start off with. However, as it got about a quarter of the way through, I couldn't put it down! There was an enormous sense of mystery in this book which is why I had to read on!
I was slightly disappointed to the end though. I expected the culprit to be different to the obvious but in the end, it was the obvious culprit. This annoyed me as the twists and turns built my hopes up.
The characters were very likable. They had great relationships together and were really opinionated. It is written from the two character's point of views. Both of these characters were very distinguished and I enjoyed that. The world set on the spaceship is greatly described. It was very unusual and very different to anything I have read about before. I did feel like I was in this world and I really did enjoy the sense of sci-fi.
I read this earlier this year (I am very behind on my reviews) and I did enjoy it. However, I was not desperately in need of buying the next book. Usually, after the first book in a series, I am urged to buy the next book on Amazon ASAP. This wasn't the case for this book. I do want to read the next book though but just not desperately. The one thing that annoys me with this trilogy is that the covers are beautiful for the first two books but the third book is completely different! When I do get round to getting all three, they will look awful on my shelf! OCD much!
Overall, a unique book with a great sense of mystery. A recommended read!
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