REVIEW: Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

RATING:****

SERIES: Across the Universe #1

GENRE: YA Dystopia/ Sci - fi

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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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Undone by Cat Clarke

Wow!
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Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is outed online ... and he kills himself.

Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. And she wants to take them down. 

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

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Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba's world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on an epic quest to get him back.

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The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda

Check this out! I can't wait to read it!

Don’t Sweat.  Don’t Laugh.  Don’t draw attention to yourself.  And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them.

Gene is different from everyone else around him.  He can’t run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn’t hurt him and he doesn’t have an unquenchable lust for blood.  Gene is a human, and he knows the rules.  Keep the truth a secret.  It’s the only way to stay alive in a world of night—a world where humans are considered a delicacy and hunted for their blood.

When he’s chosen for a once in a lifetime opportunity to hunt the last remaining humans, Gene’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble around him.  He’s thrust into the path of a girl who makes him feel things he never thought possible—and into a ruthless pack of hunters whose suspicions about his true nature are growing. Now that Gene has finally found something worth fighting for, his need to survive is stronger than ever—but is it worth the cost of his humanity?

Cold hands, Warm heart

I recently got this book and can't wait to read it!

Book of the Day

A brilliant book for a brilliant price, especially for the kindle!

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

They say be a good girl, get good grades, be popular. They know nothing about me. I can’t remember the night that changed my life. The night I went from popular to loner freak. And my family are determined to keep it that way. They said therapy was supposed to help. They didn’t expect Noah. Noah is the dangerous boy my parents warned me about. But the only one who’ll listen. The only one who’ll help me find the truth. I know every kiss, every promise, every touch is forbidden. But what if finding your destiny means breaking all the rules? A brave and powerful novel about loss, change and growing up, but most of all love.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pushing-the-Limits-ebook/dp/B008ATMSNA/ref=zg_bs_362219031_1