Across the Universe
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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.
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3 primary books6 released books#1 in Across the Universe
Across the Universe is a 6-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Beth Revis, Saundra Mitchell, and Aprilynne Pike.
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I really enjoyed this book. I was worried that it might be too spacey for my tastes (since, as I said, I don't often read sci-fi), but Across the Universe had me hooked. There's a murder mystery, romance that isn't overdone (which, I have to say, is pretty refreshing) and some memorable characters. The only thing that bothered me was the dual-POV—the book is told both from Amy and Elder's alternating first person POV, which was a little difficult to adjust to at first, but I actually enjoyed it later on. In fact, the dual POV really made the ending particularly fantastic stylistically, in my opinion.
Oh, and have I mentioned the twists? There aren't many books that have surprised me like Across the Universe did, and I can count on one hand how many book surprised me more than once (Across the Universe, of course, being one of them).
Mystery. Romance. Twists. I highly recommend this one. It's a great read and I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel.
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Cover: The cover is ok. Precisely how I imagined Amy. However the Hardcover is my favorite.
Book: A bookish friend gifted and ordered AtU[Across the Universe] for me at the bookdepository.Thanks Shelaugh
amy was on earth
Now she's frozen.Cryrogenically Frozen
She should be asleep but she's not.Mostly wake in cold frozen lifeless body. She wants to scream but can't. And almost 300 years onboard Godspeed. But out of nowhere she's thawing,alive again and unfrozen. What?? why?? how??
BUT
wink
Him telling her that her that he did it, unfreezing her.Keeping a secret is never good. I hope Amy can forgive him
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Sad he died. Knew you died, knew you not how you were going to die.Did not see that coming. Feeling emotionally right now typing this.But glad the wonderful Mrs Revis thought you up.He I feel a bit better i'll get to know more about your girlfriend who sad died as well in book two and maybe more about you
DUDE DUDE,OMG REALLY
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