Review: A Million Suns by Beth Revis

Title: A Million Suns
Author: Beth Revis
Series: Across the Universe, #2
Publisher: Razorbill
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Pages: 386
Rating:

Godspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. 
It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And 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 enact his vision - no more Phydus, no more lies. 

But when Elder discovers shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. They must work together to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier, unable to fight the romance that's growing between them and the chaos that threatens to tear them apart.

A MILLION SUNS was quite an interesting sequel to the first book in the trilogy, Across the Universe. I liked it and I didn't like it and a lot of it had to do with the characters! I mean the characters made me go bonkers and I had an urge to throw the book across the room in annoyance. But overall, it was an amazing sequel!

Of course I couldn't put the book down because so much happened in this book that I couldn't afford to miss a minute of what was going on. Elder is now, The Eldest, but he wants to keep going by Elder. And he is goal to to be the leader that Godspeed needs. He wants the ship to land and trying very hard to be a leader everyone of the ship can be proud of, but everything gets chaotic on the ship very quickly, especially since everyone is off of Phydus.

Anyway everyone refuses to work and is disobeying all of the rules and causing riots and I feel really bad for Elder because everything is turning out not so good for him. In the meantime, some murders have taken place with a note left at the scene, "Follow the Leader", which is really bad for Elder. Orion left some clues for Amy about this big secret he found about the status of the new planet/Godspeed!

So I thought A MILLION SUNS was really good up to the point where Amy was getting way to impatient about having her parent's unfrozen every second she hears somewhat good news about Godspeed. At the end of A MILLION SUNS Amy wouldn't look at things rationally, but took things way too personally. She didn't agree with what Elder decided at the end and I'm sorry to say this but she was seriously acting like a spoiled little brat.

I had some problems with A MILLION SUNS as you can tell, but it was still pretty and good and I am looking forward to the third book and can't wait to see what happens.

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Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Title: Across the Universe
Author: Beth Revis
Series: Across the Universe, #1
Publisher: Razorbill
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Pages: 398
Rating:

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE was a beautiful story that captured me til the very end. I loved every single moment of this book. I couldn't stop reading until I got to the very last page. This would have to be my first dystopian and I loved it. This book was heart wrenching. And I am just making you want to read it even more now, aren't I?

I am not much of a sci-fi fan, so I am a bit wary towards those types of books, but this would have to be the second sci-fi book I have read and OMG. it blew my away. I really need to look more into the sci-fi genre. They may have some more books that I will devour.

I really felt for the main character Amy. I have to say I could never in a million years go through what she had to go through. On Godspeed, everyone is the same, same eye color, hair, skin color, etc. and Amy is the only one that is different and since she has woken up from being frozen it has been nothing but suffocating for her. She is on a ship where people think of here as a freak and there customs are so ridicolous to her, all she want is for her father to hold her, but will she wake him up and make him go through what she had to go through.

Elder is supposedly Amy's love interest and he is different from the leader of Godspeed, Eldest. He is more caring towards other, and he has heart. Since Amy has woken up he has re guarded her as the most beautiful creature in the universe, with her beautiful red hair and her grass-green eyes. He is one of the several people that treats her as a person. One thing I really loved about this book is that it is in both Amy's and Elder's POV. I think to see what is going on with both of them when the other is not around and it explains what exactly is going on.

Eldest is the leader of godspeed and I express utter hatred from this lunatic. To me he is not a leader at all, he is a controller. If everything doesn't go his way, he has a fit like a spoiled child. And I am sure if you have read the book, you would agree with me.

I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me. 

I thought that this book was really creative with mystery and romance. I thought here was was a lot of twists and turns in this book that just surprises you. And the end! All I have to say is OMFG! I did not see that coming. This has to be my second favorite young adult book of 2011. Revis is not giving us anything on book 2 right now, which is driving me crazy. Although the ending does not end in a cliffhanger(thank you, Revis) the ending just makes you want the second book immediately.

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