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Up until reading this book, my favorite series was Ender's Game. I kept passing Across the Universe in the bookstore, picking it up, and just putting it back down. Finally, in desperate need of a new book to read, I took the plunge and bought it. I read the entire thing in one night and went back to the store the next day to buy the second book, A Million Sons. I then read that in a night and, in the same night, reread both books. I then immediately pre-ordered the final book, Shades of Earth.

This book series is INCREDIBLY well thought-out. The writing is flawless and Revis transitions between the two characters flawlessly. I don't normally like first person stories, but I truly felt as if I was a part of the characters. One of the most important aspect of any book to me in realism. Even though this series is set on a spaceship and is completely sci-fi, the book felt SO believable. My favorite part was how the characters reacted and responded to situations. It was very relatable and I was never left wondering, "Why would they do/think that?". No part of the character development felt forced or rushed. If anything, the first book is a LITTLE slow. Once you hit the end, though, it was so worth it. I now love reading the first book to pick up on stuff I'd missed before. Another amazing part of this series is that it isn't cut-and-dry like other YA novels are. There isn't just one problem and one solution. It's a spider-web of issues within each book and you learn about them through the characters. I also love that, while romance is a part of the book, it is NOT rushed or forced, and it is not the main aspect of the story. It certainly plays a part, and is a driving plot line sometimes, but in a very relatable way. I never felt that it was over-the-top. I'm very much a non-romantic and even I felt that it was well thought out.

I was 16 when I first read this book and now at 23 I still love it. It is easily my favorite book series and I NEVER tire of rereading it. I recommend it to everyone who will stand still long enough. I truly think it is a story for those of any ages, although some elements are probably best for teens and older.


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Across the Universe Beth Revis Books Reviews

Over the years, there have been many authors who have tackled the idea of a multi-generational starship, many patterned after Heinlein's seminal Orphans of the Sky. This book is no exception, with once again something going seriously wrong during the long years of the journey, and resulting in a takeover of the ships operation by a small dictatorial group, or in this case, a single individual, the Eldest. The community is tightly controlled, with the majority of the population kept on sedating drugs and who mate only once a generation.

Into this world comes Amy, one of the group of cold-sleepers who were intended to be woken only at journey's end, where they would form the nucleus of the colonizing party. She is woken from her icy cell under mysterious circumstances, and is immediately confronted with the fact that she is very different, both in looks and mental outlook, from everyone else, as over the years the population has been homogenized into a single racial set of characteristics, and who have unquestioned loyalty to the status quo.

A good set-up, with more details appearing as Amy learns just what is going on in this world and how it got this way. And with her greater knowledge comes opposition to this set-up, as she finds herself comparing the Eldest to Hitler, with apparent good reason. However, I found that as we got deeper into this work, the true moral questions that are raised about absolute control possibly being totally necessary to the success and survival of all are dealt with in far too simplistic a manner. In addition, Amy's emotional responses seem to be those of someone perhaps three of four years younger than her supposed waking age of seventeen, especially in regards to her relationship with the Elder (the Eldest-in-training).

The various mysteries surrounding who woke Amy from her long sleep and various other odd happenings in the ship are fairly easily guessed at by the reader, and once again I had problems with the depicted emotional state and reasoning of the person who did wake her up, as it doesn't quite jibe with the rest of the depicted character.

A good setup, reasonably well described, and the characters are engaging, but I was let down by the simplistic treatments of tough questions and the emotional immaturity of the two main characters.

Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
This is the story of a colony ship en route to another star system. The trip will take 300 years. Many of the colonists are frozen while about 2000 live on board the ship in the hope that their descendants will make planetfall.

Amy, one of the frozen, is a young girl of seventeen who is awakened early. She finds the situation on board the ship very strange. The ship is ruled by the Eldest who is basically a dictator. His successor is called the Elder whom in this case is a young sixteen year old male.

The Elder and Amy become friends as they discover that much of what the Elder knows about the ship and its history are lies. This setting makes for a very powerful Young Adult novel that can be enjoyed by all ages. My only complaint is that the book leaves us wanting more - which is no problem as this is only the first book of a trilogy.
Up until reading this book, my favorite series was Ender's Game. I kept passing Across the Universe in the bookstore, picking it up, and just putting it back down. Finally, in desperate need of a new book to read, I took the plunge and bought it. I read the entire thing in one night and went back to the store the next day to buy the second book, A Million Sons. I then read that in a night and, in the same night, reread both books. I then immediately pre-ordered the final book, Shades of Earth.

This book series is INCREDIBLY well thought-out. The writing is flawless and Revis transitions between the two characters flawlessly. I don't normally like first person stories, but I truly felt as if I was a part of the characters. One of the most important aspect of any book to me in realism. Even though this series is set on a spaceship and is completely sci-fi, the book felt SO believable. My favorite part was how the characters reacted and responded to situations. It was very relatable and I was never left wondering, "Why would they do/think that?". No part of the character development felt forced or rushed. If anything, the first book is a LITTLE slow. Once you hit the end, though, it was so worth it. I now love reading the first book to pick up on stuff I'd missed before. Another amazing part of this series is that it isn't cut-and-dry like other YA novels are. There isn't just one problem and one solution. It's a spider-web of issues within each book and you learn about them through the characters. I also love that, while romance is a part of the book, it is NOT rushed or forced, and it is not the main aspect of the story. It certainly plays a part, and is a driving plot line sometimes, but in a very relatable way. I never felt that it was over-the-top. I'm very much a non-romantic and even I felt that it was well thought out.

I was 16 when I first read this book and now at 23 I still love it. It is easily my favorite book series and I NEVER tire of rereading it. I recommend it to everyone who will stand still long enough. I truly think it is a story for those of any ages, although some elements are probably best for teens and older.