Across the Universe - Beth Revis

Across the Universe is the debut novel from Beth Revis. It was published by Penguin on 3rd March and the book is 416 pages long. Thanks to the publisher for providing an ARC for review. Plot On the spaceship ‘Godspeed’ seventeen year old Amy has been cryogenically frozen, along with her parents. The trip is supposed to take 300 years with the destination being a new planet but things don’t quite work out that way. 250 years into the journey, Amy is accidentally woken up from her frozen state and she finds herself forced to live on a strange ship with even stranger people and rules. What was ... more

Space. Not something I've ever really felt that drawn to in a book if I'm honest, but for some reason Across The Universe by Beth Revis really appealed to me. When an early copy came up on UK book tours I signed up immediately and wow, I wasn't disappointed! Across the Universe tells the story of Seventeen year old Amy. Having made the agonising decision to join her parents as frozen cargo on spaceship, Godspeed, bound for a new planet 300 years away, she's woken fifty years early. Unplugged by an unknown and left to die, it's luck that brings Elder, Godspeeds leader in training, to her rescue ... more

I don't know much about science fiction, and probably have never read any of it in my life, so I was really unsure about what exactly to expect even though I knew I *had* to read this. There's been a huge buzz about this book in the blogosphere, a hype that seems to be going around like a bug. Amy is just one of the hundreds of people who have been cryogenically frozen and are being held on board the Godspeed, a ship that is set to land on a new planet 300 years into the future. But something really unexpected happens, and Amy finds herself awake. Waaaaaaaaay ahead of schedule. Living on the ... more