7. Across the Universe - Beth Revis

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 sister gave me this book a few years ago.  It sat there on my shelf, sad and neglected.  Then my sister-in-law recently read it and I realized - hey, I have that book and I should probably read it.

 

So I started reading about the journey of Amy and Elder.

 

It started out interesting.  I think the idea of being frozen for space travel to settle on a distant planet in the distant future is so fascinating.  Crazy, but fascinating.  I don't blame Amy for being afraid to do it - leaving everything you know for some unknown world far into the future is definitely a daunting thought!  Naturally I was pulled into her story and wanting to know what would happen.

 

Then I was introduced to Elder and the Godspeed (the spaceship Amy and her family are traveling on while frozen).  Things seemed really weird on the ship, so there was a part of me that wanted to know what was really going on and what was behind all the weird rules, but then part of me was just not interested.  I didn't really like the character of Elder.  I couldn't stand how easily he fell in love with Amy (if we can even call it that) and how he was willing to betray everything he knew for her (which wasn't a bad thing, but highly unusual for someone his age).

 

Overall, the "surprise" did surprise me, and it makes me interested in reading the next book in the series to see what happens, but I don't know if I can stomach anymore of Elder and Amy and their "relationship".

 

Rating: 3/5

 

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