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50bookchallenge. I don't intend to post 50 book reviews, but when I do post one, I want to keep a copy here.
Title: Across the Universe
Author: Beth Revis
Pages: 416
Commercial for the book with a voiceover perfect for the main character: Click here.
A young adult book, but easily enjoyable by adults. It starts as many scifi books do: The Earth is dying. We've all but killed the planet, and so must find new ones to live on. A ship, the Godspeed, is sent out with most everyone frozen for the 300 year journey. One person, a girl named Amy, is woken early.
The ship is nothing like she expected it to be, and even less like the Earth she knew. There are people, classes of people who grow food and raise animals on the ship, others who keep the ship running, and one person in charge of everything, somehow keeping everyone perfectly in line and peaceful.
The book is a touch heavy-handed once or twice (Godwin's Law comes into play), and I didn't like the ending (which might just be a matter of taste), but all in all I enjoyed this story of a dystopian future very much. I liked this book enough I would have bought others by her, if she had published anything else. I look forward to the day her next novel comes out.
Small warning: This is one of those books where the ebook costs more than the hardcover. It's only a dollar difference, I still got the ebook version, but for some people that's an important thing to know.
50bookchallenge. I don't intend to post 50 book reviews, but when I do post one, I want to keep a copy here.Title: Across the Universe
Author: Beth Revis
Pages: 416
Commercial for the book with a voiceover perfect for the main character: Click here.
A young adult book, but easily enjoyable by adults. It starts as many scifi books do: The Earth is dying. We've all but killed the planet, and so must find new ones to live on. A ship, the Godspeed, is sent out with most everyone frozen for the 300 year journey. One person, a girl named Amy, is woken early.
The ship is nothing like she expected it to be, and even less like the Earth she knew. There are people, classes of people who grow food and raise animals on the ship, others who keep the ship running, and one person in charge of everything, somehow keeping everyone perfectly in line and peaceful.
The book is a touch heavy-handed once or twice (Godwin's Law comes into play), and I didn't like the ending (which might just be a matter of taste), but all in all I enjoyed this story of a dystopian future very much. I liked this book enough I would have bought others by her, if she had published anything else. I look forward to the day her next novel comes out.
Small warning: This is one of those books where the ebook costs more than the hardcover. It's only a dollar difference, I still got the ebook version, but for some people that's an important thing to know.
