Tuesday, September 29, 2015

A Million Suns by Beth Revis | Book Review

A Million Suns by Beth Revis 


Reading Group:  High School+


Personal Rating: 4 Out of 5 Stars

Given Summary: It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision--no more Phydus, no more lies. But when Elder learns shocking news, he and Amy must race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed, all the while dealing with the love that's growing between them and the chaos that threatens to tear them apart.

Beth Revis catapulted readers into the far reaches of space with her New York Times bestselling debut, Across the Universe. In A Million Suns, Beth deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: THEY HAVE TO GET OFF THIS SHIP.

Cover: Again, I really like Beth Revis' covers for these books.  On this cover Amy and Elder are looking out of the ship together and seeing space.  Their holding hands and a bright light is covering them.  I think this shows that no matter what happens, they're in this together. 

My Review: They made it!  But not really because they made it years and years ago, but haven't landed on the new planet.  That was a plot twist I wasn't expecting.  I also wasn't expecting the entire ship t go into mass chaos as Elder and Amy tried to figure out how to get the ship out of the planets orbit and onto the planets soil.  I liked this story a little bit more than the first one in the series just because I knew the characters better and I felt like this one started off at a faster pace.  I do wish their relationship developed more though!  It did develop a little bit and I have high hopes for these two, but just love each other!  Maybe I'm reading too many Christina Lauren novels where the characters fall in love within the first 30 pages, but I just like the happy ever after stories and I really want this to be one of those.  Like the first novel, this one does have plot twists and stuff to keep you guessing.  I like that part of it.  The fact that it's a mystery story and you try to figure everything out before the main characters do is fun for me, sometimes frustrating, but fun.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Across the Universe by Beth Revis | Book Review

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Reading Group: High School+

Personal Rating: 4 Out of 5 Stars

Given Summary: Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber.

Someone tried to murder her.

Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead. Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.

Cover: I love this cover.  I think it's so pretty.  It's really simple, just Amy and Elder almost kissing in space, but I really like it.

My Review: Oh my god this went live when I didn't mean for it to!  I'm so sorry!!
I gotta tell you guys that this book came up on my Amazon recommended page and I only read it because of the cover.  It's so pretty!  Scify stuff isn't typically my thing, but I did end up enjoying this novel.  It took a little long to really get going though.  And I just wanted Elder and Amy to get together, but they never did!  The story itself was really interesting and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who liked The Giver or some other dystopian novel.  I think it's cute how much elder cares for Amy and he doesn't even really know her.  It was also interesting having the two of them coexist because they're the same age, but they know two completely different lives.  The scene where Amy almost gets gang raped was crazy though.  The entire mating season thing was something, but I really wish Elder found out about it.  I don't know why, I just feel like he should have figured it out somehow.  It was also fun trying to figure out the killer.  It is a murder mystery after all.   As much as I enjoyed this novel there were a few things I wish were different in it.  

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