I have been seriously searching out Dystopian YA for a few months now. I like the thought of another/alternate world, so after reading a few reviews for Across the Universe, I had to get my hands on it.

I was expecting a romance between the two main characters, but in there really wasn't. There was a lot of hinting that Elder ( weird to call someone that) was in love/lust with Amy, but there really wasn't anything else, and you didn't get too much from Amy on her feelings. Though that is understandable, seeing as she is awoken on a ship that she was never supposed to see.
The story switches POVs just about every chapter and at times this would confuse me, and I had trouble following along with the book and would have to go back just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
The character that I really liked in the book "dies" and after that I had a hard time continuing to read, but after struggling through the more sci-fi than dystopian story I knew that if I didn't finish the last 100 or so pages I was going to be left with more questions than I already had.
Across the Universe is well written, but like I said, it reads more of a Sci-fi than YA Dystopian like I thought. First we start off with Amy and her parents being Frozen for 300 years so that they can help set up the new planet they are being sent to. First off, I don't care how bad life here on earth gets.. I don't want to be frozen!!! And secondly, why would you want your child to go through that?
From there we switch POVs with Amy ( remember she is frozen) and Elder, who is aboard Godspeed ( the Ship). You get to be inside Amy's mind while she realizes that her body is frozen but not her mind, so that is a little scary in itself! And when meeting Elder, you start to wonder why he just blindly obeys.
After Amy is unfrozen ( by whom we don't know) and she is saved, her and Elder form a semi friendship, she meets Harley, Doc and Eldest ( scary DUDE!!), Needless to say, after realizing that everyone aboard the ship looks almost just alike Amy starts to feel like more of an outcast, and then more Frozens are being unplugged and it becomes a race to find out who is doing it. Without giving too much away, know that in the end, we find out who was doing it and a little tid-bit about Amy's unfreezing that we didn't know.
The ending was very abrupt in my opinion and as much as it pains me, I am waiting for the second book to come out so I can figure out how Amy and Elder are going to handle everything that they found out. ( )

YA Sci-Fi/mystery/romance. Cool concept and interesting mystery but I wasn't thrilled by how quickly things wrapped up at the end. I want to know what happens next --- maybe there is a sequel in the works?

If the mix of genres appeals to you you'll probably enjoy it. I'd go library on this one not purchase. ( )

This book was very nice, and easy to read. I had some trouble putting the book away at times. The story is good, and so is the development of the main characters. ( )

There is books that just give certain warm feeling. Purely subjective, purely "right moment in the life". That is one of those for me.

Also... I can't deny that presentation of complex things like truth and lies of individuality and society in such simplified form is one of the pleasures for the tired and bored mind of "seen it all". Adult books are boring without YA salt now. ( )

I can tell you that overall it was quite an engaging read. I pretty much devoured it in 24 hours, which is hard to do for a book well over 400 pages and you know, work and stuff. I enjoyed the story, there was a lot of suspense and the writing minus a few minor flaws was solid. Ms. Revis definitely knows how to tell a compelling story that will keep the reader guessing until the last page. There are quite a few surprises near the end, and as a reader I find that I am pretty hard to take by surprise. So Revis gets bonus points for keeping me on my toes!

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