Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet three hundred years in the future, is unplugged fifty years too early and finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.
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ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is a different type of story. It starts out with Amy and her family being frozen so they can sleep for the next 300 years and awake on a new planet, and help that planet grow just like earth. The only problem with this is Amy is awoken early. Finally, Amy thought it was time and she would be able to see her family again, but this however isn’t the case. They are still traveling to the new planet and this is the first time a person has come unfrozen. There is no sun; there is no beautiful sky to look at it. It’s all metal. She hates the place, and I can’t blame her. I would hate it as well. Amy begins to cause a disturbance to the ship because she sees how brainwashed people really are, especially when The Season comes around. It’s a sight that’s truly sickening... Amy questions the Eldest, which is something that should never be done. She only does this because she knows something just isn’t right. Amy and Elder (a teenage boy, who is next in line to run the ship,) begin to put the pieces together along with Harley, Elder's best friend.
A friend of mine wrote a book very similar to this, writing wise, the story is very different. It's called Riley Girl, and it's also similar to Legend, which is a different book in this contest, but that's not why I'm writing this post, just throwing it out there. Anywho, this book frustrated me a lot. Like a LOT. For starters, the part where they can "recycle" the freakin' URANIUM. Skipping the phase where I say "how the heck is that possible," they are essentially using COLD FUSION ON A FREAKING SPACEBOAT- if they could pull that off, why leave earth in the first place? Unlimited energy wasn't good enough for you? Had to go to some planet a petillion lightyears away in some other galaxy? Can't just take your reusable uranium and terraphorm some other planet? You know, one in the same solar system as Earth? Moving past that rant, why wouldn't they have somebody on board to repair their satellite communication system, you know, in case of a riot that knocks out communication to the homeworld? That would be a little higher on the priority list than painters if I were to plan this expedition. Wouldn't the gravity be much weaker on the spaceship? Not questioning how they pulled it off in the first place, a few hundred generations on board would have highly degraded skeletal structure from an extended period of weak gravity. And this phydus stuff, it sounds like some kind of hardcore drug to me. Drink some special calm juice and watch as all emotion goes away. I wouldn't be surprised if they kept that stuff going after the revolution. Anyways, other than all of these loopholes in the plot, it was an okay book, not exactly good, but not bad.
Across the universe was a very amazing book I absolutely loved it. I think the writer did great in executing how Amy felt when she was frozen, and I love how she jumps from their minds so you get the point of view from Amy and Elder. I love how there is a mixture of all my favorite genres in it. Sci-Fi, romance, and mystery. I think it was smart how Amy used the charcoal from Harley to find the fingerprints. Even though I had a hard time with some of the things Harley did, he is one of my favorite characters. Also I never expected Orion to play the part that he did. It's amazing how the writer kept you guessing how everything worked until the end.
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