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paige_nguyen 's review for:
Across the Universe
by Beth Revis
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I don't have a lot of experience with the Si-Fi genre, besides Ender's Game, but I really enjoyed this book. I devoured it in one day after reading that epic beginning. There were so many interesting situations to mull over...
-Deciding to be frozen and reawaken in 300 years
-being brought back to life too early and realizing you are going to have to live almost all of your life before seeing your parents again
-what happens to people isolated in such away, how a culture develops on its own
-how someone with enough power could make up his own version of Earth's history and then trying to convince people of this when you know the truth.
-what it would feel like to be born on a ship where no one has ever seen Earth, all you've ever known is synthetic
the only thing that let me down is that I completely guessed the ending! I was so sad that I figured it out. I love twist endings.
It was sad and terrifying at parts, and I felt claustrophobic aboard the ship. I really felt like I understood what the characters were feeling and wanted to jump in and help them.
Not to like:
Frexing reminds me of frisky, so I imagine frisky kittens playing in a meadow....not an emotion-laden f*bomb....
The romance seemed forced and didn't make a whole lot of sense. I guess you come to expect this in a YA novel.
Amy's priorities seemed a little messed up. She seemed to be a one dimensional character, no depth. I can't believe she spent as much time thinking about her ex boyfriend as she did. You are on a spaceship 300 years into the future and your parents are FROZEN! C'mon!
But I'm still looking foward to where the story goes in the sequel...it's a guilty pleasure book :)
I don't have a lot of experience with the Si-Fi genre, besides Ender's Game, but I really enjoyed this book. I devoured it in one day after reading that epic beginning. There were so many interesting situations to mull over...
-Deciding to be frozen and reawaken in 300 years
-being brought back to life too early and realizing you are going to have to live almost all of your life before seeing your parents again
-what happens to people isolated in such away, how a culture develops on its own
-how someone with enough power could make up his own version of Earth's history and then trying to convince people of this when you know the truth.
-what it would feel like to be born on a ship where no one has ever seen Earth, all you've ever known is synthetic
the only thing that let me down is that I completely guessed the ending! I was so sad that I figured it out. I love twist endings.
Spoiler
I knew that the other Eldest wasn't dead and that it was probably Orion. I wondered if they were clones, but that was a fleeting thought. I knew that there had been a sort of coup in which the Eldest system was started. I knew that Orion was the one pulling out the frozens, but I definitely didn't realize he was going to turn out so evil! I thought he had a good reason for pulling out those particular frozens. I thought perhaps he was unsuccessfully trying to awaken them to help overthrow the Eldest. I can't believe the "librarian" turned out evil.It was sad and terrifying at parts, and I felt claustrophobic aboard the ship. I really felt like I understood what the characters were feeling and wanted to jump in and help them.
Not to like:
Frexing reminds me of frisky, so I imagine frisky kittens playing in a meadow....not an emotion-laden f*bomb....
The romance seemed forced and didn't make a whole lot of sense. I guess you come to expect this in a YA novel.
Amy's priorities seemed a little messed up. She seemed to be a one dimensional character, no depth. I can't believe she spent as much time thinking about her ex boyfriend as she did. You are on a spaceship 300 years into the future and your parents are FROZEN! C'mon!
But I'm still looking foward to where the story goes in the sequel...it's a guilty pleasure book :)