Across the Universe by Beth Revis

This book seriously blew my mind away. So good. Well, this is about a girl named Amy who decides to freeze herself so that she and her parents will travel to "New Earth" and help develop the planet. This journey is suppose to take around three hundred years but someone is waking up the frozen passengers and Amy is one of them. The majority of the book is about Amy coming to terms with never seeing her parents again, trying to adjust to life on the ship, and trying to figure out who woke her up. This book is told through her perspective and a boy her age(the only other person her age) named Elder who will eventually be in the leader of the ship. There is still a lot left to be said about this book, but this is the basic plot.

This book kept me guessing up until the end. The biggest question: Who woke up Amy? It isn't even revealed until the very end and I had so many speculations. I will tell you I did guess the right person but I was NEVER sure. That was probably what I had the most fun doing just guessing who it was because you think you know but the next chapter you have no idea. But that wasn't the only part that made it seem like a murder mystery. There were also other parts of the story that I won't tell you about because that would kind of spoil the it but other parts also kept you on your toes and made you question everything. I loved it. The tag line is "A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder." And it couldn't be more accurate. 

So I won't get into characters too much because it would sort of spoil some parts but also because some are really complex and that would take forever but they all are great characters and add so much to the plot. If you took out one character, the entire novel, and probably series, would fall apart. Sorry if that offers no explanation but I think that the reader needs to make their own opinions about the characters to have the same experience I had.

Okay, so the biggest reason I loved this book so much was because it made me think about life and human nature so much. It was mind blowing. Towards the end, something happens, no spoilers, but it hit me so hard and I had to physically set the book down to process what that meant. When I finished the book I had the biggest book hangover. I didn't read anything for the rest of the month because I didn't think anything could compare to it.

Overall, I loved this book. It kept me on my toes it was almost interactive with the reader. I loved second guessing everything and it left me speechless. The only thing I wished was different was the ending. I thought it ended a little too abruptly but it definitely makes me want to read the nest book in the series. 5 out of 5 stars.