*Across the Universe Spoiler Alert*
It's been 3 months since Amy was unplugged from the cryogenic machine that kept her frozen until the ship, Godspeed, was to land on Centauri-Earth. In these 3 months, she's battled the stares and whispers of "freak" from the monoethnic residents of Godspeed and her integration into their way of life. Now that Elder has become Eldest, although he refuses to take the title, he is busier than ever, and Amy finds herself missing him when he's not around. Now that the water on the ship does not include the neutralizing chemical Phydus, Elder is on the cusp of dealing with rebellion and mutiny while he and Amy struggle to piece together the clues that Orion left them before he was frozen. The clues lead them to a truth that Orion pleads with them to deny. To do anything but what Godspeed was intended to do: Get them to the new planet. Someone has been messing with the clues. Someone has been killing Godspeed residents. Someone is coming in between Amy and Elder, prying them apart with secrets that are too big. Amy and Elder fight their budding romance and a silent killer in the intense sequel to Across the Universe.
Oh my goodness. This book was so good! While it's prequel took a while to get going, A Million Suns took right off! The prose is fantastic, and Revis does a really good job of switching between Elder and Amy's points of view and still making it readable and ,more importantly, understandable. While the plot of A Million Suns is different, the two books intertwine so well and so intricately that you don't really have a choice but to read all of them, which is one of my favorite things about this particular series.
The obvious romance between Amy and Elder takes my breath away. It's so exciting, but it's different from other YA novels because they don't just fall into bed and never ask questions. Amy has this amazing quote at the end of one of the beginning chapters: “Just that I don’t want to be with you just because there’s no one else.” But, as Amy and Elder find out during their adventures aboard the ship, sometimes there is no choice at all...sometimes, one person is meant to be yours forever.
This book kept me hanging on until 3:30 in the morning, and it never once let me go. I'm so excited that I get to broadcast just how much I loved this book and it's prequel, and I'm also so excited to complete this 3-fold review in January of 2013!
Teaser Quote: “...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more.” -Amy (This one is really, really funny. I loved this part!!!!)
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