Across The Universe by Beth Revis

Title: Across The Universe

Author: Beth Revis

Type: Young Adult Novel
Genre: Fantasy

Series: Yes, Across The Universe #1

Pages: 398
Copyright: 2011
Publisher: Razorbill

Rating: 3.5 out of 5


Summary: from Good Reads
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.


Feelings: 
Space travel on a huge ship with hills and farms sounds pretty cool right? Well it is a ship and it is heading for a planet that is supposed to be an earth substitute, but is possible that it might not be habitable.

The story moves back and forth between Amy, who is traveling as frozen cargo aboard the ship to be woken when the reach the new planet, Centauri-Earth, and Elder, the next leader of the ship. This turns out to the the story of Amy and Elder as they get to know each other and protect the other frozen people from being killed and woken up. Amy is terrified by the fact that she won't be able to see her parents and that everything she knows is gone. Elder is frustrated that he is stuck on a ship and the planet is still in the future. Elder has never been of the ship but he longs to leave.

I enjoyed the story of trying to figure out how and why Godspeed, the ship, was the way it was and how the people ended up being so different that what Amy remembers, yet they think they are normal.

It would be interesting to think about space travel in this way, generation after generation piloting the ship on its way across space. I enjoyed this book a lot and am looking forward to reading the next in the series.