Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Synopsis
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 rating: 5 of 5 stars


Beautifully written, and so terrifying I was on the edge of my seat. It's that opening that just grabs you. Serious shivers from it, but it's a perfect hook. As so many others have said, this isn't just science fiction. It's murder, romance, and self-discovery rolled all into one.

I had my hopes for this novel really high up. I can't say that I'm disappointed in it, because I am not at all. It just didn't go how I thought it would. Plus there were some lulls. But! To be honest I didn't care about any of that, just because this story was so intriguing, even in it's duller moments. This isn't a book for those with a squeamish stomach or the faint of heart. Though it is fiction and you know the characters aren't really hurtling through space, you can't help but take a look up the sky hoping to see Godspeed taking off.

Revis is an author that I will be keeping my eye on. Hopefully so many will like it that it'll be put in film production quickly! Her world in Across the Universe came to life easily, and it's not a world I will soon forget, though I will be reading it again and again!

I wish I could go on about this book, but I feel I'll blurt something out and ruin it for everyone, so I'll leave it here. One thing to say is just: GO READ IT ! NOW !

P.S. I'm a sucker for The Beatles. The lyric from Across the Universe (the song :) by this epic band had my heart throbbing before I even got to the first page.