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A review by celiapowell
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
3.0
Amy and her parents are frozen cargo on a ship heading deep into space to a new planet. Elder is one of the generations living and working on the ship, and is destined to become the next leader of those people after the current leader, Eldest. When Amy is woken up early, she is a catalyst for Elder to start questioning the tightly controlled society Eldest runs.
The narrative alternates between Amy and Elder's voices, and centres around several mysteries - who is unfreezing the passengers, why the working population on the ship are so calm and compliant, what Eldest is hiding from Elder. Some of the answers to these questions are fairly obvious, and you wonder why it's taking Amy and Elder quite so long to figure them out - others are more of a surprise.
I quite enjoyed this, I liked the way that Revis makes a generational ship work, but I felt it was a bit slow at times, and I wanted Amy and Elder to just think about things more and get it all moving along.
The narrative alternates between Amy and Elder's voices, and centres around several mysteries - who is unfreezing the passengers, why the working population on the ship are so calm and compliant, what Eldest is hiding from Elder. Some of the answers to these questions are fairly obvious, and you wonder why it's taking Amy and Elder quite so long to figure them out - others are more of a surprise.
I quite enjoyed this, I liked the way that Revis makes a generational ship work, but I felt it was a bit slow at times, and I wanted Amy and Elder to just think about things more and get it all moving along.