Across the Universe
by: Beth Revis
by: Beth Revis
Publication Date: January 11th 2011
Publisher: Razorbill
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
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.
This book is another brilliant masterpiece of a dystopian young adult fantasy! I cannot get enough of this book! It’s those words that I have in mind whenever I think of Across the Universe. How can I get enough of it when the story is incredibly well written?
Across the Universe is the debut book of Beth Revis. I knew it would be a wonderful read for me. I have seen so many good reviews about this book and those reviews made me more excited. And so I did not think twice of buying this book. I trust my co reviewers enough to actually believe that this would be a book worth of my money, effort and time. I’m even thankful I read this. It made me feel like I’d miss a whole lot of a fantastic ride if I did not read this.
It was the story of Amy who was born in the present day Earth but was preserved because she wanted to go with her parents to the new Earth called Centauri Earth to save the human species. Amy was preserved with her parents along with a hundred plus people who will become Centauri Earth’s foundation in rebuilding the new civilization. They were stored in a big compartment in the spaceship called the Godspeed. And after so many years of being consciously asleep, Amy was attempted to be killed. She survived the attempt but woke up into a whole new world she has no clue about. But Elder, the next generation leader of the spaceship, was there to guide and protect her. But with Amy perspective, everyone in the spaceship could be a suspect of her waking up from the preservation.
I especially love the way how people are so different and could become so different in times of difficulties. They could do just about anything to keep on surviving. I love the characters and how I have no idea this would turn out. I had no time guessing of what to come next because I was so engrossed in reading. It was magnificent.
I want to share to you that when I told my friends about the book, they read it and they all loved it. It was awesome really that all of them got what I mean. Some of them weren’t even fond of reading. But they had all absorbed the beauty and brilliance of this wonderful book. We have even imagined this to become a movie. And we all think it would probably be cool if there was really one.
I couldn’t wait for A Million Suns to come out. I’d surely be buying it. I would not want to miss it. It would not be smart to miss it.
Across the Universe is the debut book of Beth Revis. I knew it would be a wonderful read for me. I have seen so many good reviews about this book and those reviews made me more excited. And so I did not think twice of buying this book. I trust my co reviewers enough to actually believe that this would be a book worth of my money, effort and time. I’m even thankful I read this. It made me feel like I’d miss a whole lot of a fantastic ride if I did not read this.
It was the story of Amy who was born in the present day Earth but was preserved because she wanted to go with her parents to the new Earth called Centauri Earth to save the human species. Amy was preserved with her parents along with a hundred plus people who will become Centauri Earth’s foundation in rebuilding the new civilization. They were stored in a big compartment in the spaceship called the Godspeed. And after so many years of being consciously asleep, Amy was attempted to be killed. She survived the attempt but woke up into a whole new world she has no clue about. But Elder, the next generation leader of the spaceship, was there to guide and protect her. But with Amy perspective, everyone in the spaceship could be a suspect of her waking up from the preservation.
I especially love the way how people are so different and could become so different in times of difficulties. They could do just about anything to keep on surviving. I love the characters and how I have no idea this would turn out. I had no time guessing of what to come next because I was so engrossed in reading. It was magnificent.
I want to share to you that when I told my friends about the book, they read it and they all loved it. It was awesome really that all of them got what I mean. Some of them weren’t even fond of reading. But they had all absorbed the beauty and brilliance of this wonderful book. We have even imagined this to become a movie. And we all think it would probably be cool if there was really one.
I couldn’t wait for A Million Suns to come out. I’d surely be buying it. I would not want to miss it. It would not be smart to miss it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Beth Revis was born and raised in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. Despite being a complete over-achiever and teacher’s pet in high school, she often wrote short stories instead of taking notes during classes. This habit persisted into college, except the stories became novels.Beth tried really hard to like boring books by dead white European men while in college, but she kept drifting over to the YA aisles in the bookstore. (While she does like Shakespeare, she insists it’s only because of all the dirty jokes.) Beth’s favorite author of all time is C.S. Lewis, ever since reading The Chronicles of Narnia under the stairs of her local library in elementary school all the way to writing her master’s thesis on Till We Have Faces. She enjoys books that are strange in someway—either they explore new worlds, discover new magics, or delve into different lives of interesting people. She also holds a special place in her heart for Firefly and Doctor Who.
After graduating from NC State University with a BA in English Education with a minor in history and a MA in English Literature with a concentration in fantasy literature (she is a complete over-achiever, remember?), Beth became a teacher herself. She filled her classes with Greek gods, samurai, and ancient monsters, but continued writing between grading essays and making lesson plans.
Although Beth had originally begun teaching thinking it would be a nice way to pay the bills before she got a book deal, she discovered that, much to her surprise, she didn’t just like teaching, she loved it. This made it much harder for her to quit when she decided to focus more time on her writing. She wrote a series of posts on this decision, reflecting on ending one career and starting another.
