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Book Review: Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

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Shades of Earth by Beth Revis Across The Universe #3 Published January 15th 2013 by Razorbill Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight. Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, ...

Book Review: A Million Suns by Beth Revis

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Title: A Million Suns Author: Beth Revis Series: Across the Universe #2 Release Date: January 10th 2012 Publisher: Razorbill Age: Young Adult Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It’s been three months. In that time, Amy has learned to hide who she is. Elder is trying to be the leader he’s always wanted to be. But as the ship gets more and more out of control, only one thing is certain: They have to get off the ship. Why did I wait so long to read A Million Suns !? It was on my bookshelf for months, and one day I was out of electricity for a few hours and decided to pick a book. Wow! If I liked Across the Universe , I absolutely loved A Million Suns. It starts right at the middle of the mess, the people is getting crazy, revolution, lies, murder, and Amy and Elder trying to discover what's really wrong with Godspeed. Desperation! That's the feeling of the book. I just wanted to punch a lot of the characters, even Elder sometimes. Amy ...

Book Review: Across The Universe by Beth Revis

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Across The Universe Author: Beth Revis Series: Across The Universe #1 Release Date: January 11th 2011 Publisher: Razorbill Age: Young Adult 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...