Across The Universe by Beth Revis

Title: Across The Universe
Author: Beth Revis

Publisher: Razorbill

Genre: YA, Dystopia, Sci-Fi
Pages: 416
Rating: 5 Stars

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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Across The Universe is an absolutely amazing book. After I finished (at 1am because I couldn't bear to put it down) I couldn't even believe what I had just read. This book kept me guessing the entire way through. This book makes me love the planet we are on even more than before. The little world that they are living in on the ship is beyond belief. It is crazy the extent they go to keep the ship's passengers peaceful and ignorant. 

In this book, you think you know what's going on. You're wrong. You think you are one step ahead of the characters. You're wrong. In the end you realize the main characters themselves were even keeping their own secrets that really changed everything and that everything you thought was completely off. I really loved this aspect of the book because it kept you guessing.

This book really made me sympathize with the characters and what they were going through. I was crushed when some of the truth was revealed. Another thing I liked was being able to relate to the girl main character. No matter if you are a boy or a girl, you will relate to Amy. She is the only one from Earth, or what they call 'Sol-Earth', on this ship full of people that mostly haven't even seen the stars, let alone land. Her reactions and emotions are just like those of a normal human being would have waking up to find out you are trapped on a ship that won't land for God knows how long. The whole concept of the book is just mind blowing. I definitely recommend this book to any fans of mystery, dystopia, of sci-fi. I am debating on adding a little romance into that but to be honest, if you are looking for romance, you will be greatly disappointed. There is a little but even I was a kind of bummed by the lack of it. But honestly, this book didn't need that aspect to maintain a good plot and overall be a great story.