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                                 October 10, 2011

          Across the Universe by. Beth Revis

Title: Across the Universe

Author: Beth Revis 
Release: January 11, 2011 
Age Group: Young Adult 
Pages: 398 
Publisher: Razorbill   

My Review:
The story begins with a seventeen year old girl named Amy. She goes with her parents on a spaceship named Godspeed, on a mission for the government to help develop Center-Earth when they land. But Amy must make a huge decision of her life. To leave the life that she has, or go as a nobody with her parents to the new earth? Because they only accept people who are important, and have enough skill to help develop Center-Earth, and Amy's parents are those kind of people but not her.. Her mother is a DNA scientist and her father has authority with the military. She can chose whether or not she can come due to her parent's position. She will be leaving behind everything, her boyfriend, her life, her world, and 300 years in the future she will see her parents again, she will wake up in a new world if she boards the ship. But she can never bear the thought of her parents leaving, so she endures the procedure by entering the box that will freeze her and her parents for 300 years.... 


But never would she have known that she will wake up from her slumber fifty years too early, and be thrust into a world of a spaceship that lives by there own rules....  On Godspeed she meets a boy named Elder and his teacher Eldest. Elder is the youngest person on the ship, and is next in line to be the new leader when Eldest passes away.. The spaceship is a world in itself with amazing gardens and new technology. Amy will have to learn how to accept her new life on the ship and her feeling for Elder.. While Elder is struggling  with the weight of the responsibility that he will soon face when he becomes leader, but he cannot see himself as the leader Eldest wants him to be.... He wants something else. As time passes on the ship, Amy soon discovers that she's not the only one that was unfrozen, but someone is killing the ones that are frozen and if Amy doesn't think of something soon her parents might be next....

My Thoughts:

-This book was amazing.... I really enjoyed the world inside the spaceship that the author created, and how detailed it was.. It felt like I was right there with the gang, and experienced what Amy and Elder was going though.... And the mystery on who and why this person unfroze Amy and let her live, while others died.... And the twist and turns in this book is shocking.... 


- The characters in this book were also amazing.... I enjoy how Amy a girl who was a nobody, who went with her important parents to go on a mission to develop a new earth... To be frozen and be woke up with them 300 years later on the new earth..... But to be woke up early and how Elder helps her to find out who woke her up and why... I also fell in love with Elder's character too. He was so strong and curious. About the world, and wants to be a better leader then Eldest... And learns more wonders undiscovered on the ship...


-So thats all I have to say about how wonderful this book is and I can't wait to read the second book, A Million Suns next year on January 10....


-And I give this book 5/5 stars....