mini Review SHADES OF EARTH by Beth Revis

Book Description

Release date: January 15, 2013 | Series: Across the Universe (Book 3)

The final book in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus!

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, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been for nothing.

About the Author
Beth Revis is the author of the New York Times bestselling Across the Universe series. Shades of Earth, the third book in the trilogy, will be published in Spring 2013. Beth lives in rural North Carolina with her husband and dog, and believes space is nowhere near the final frontier.

Source:  Borrowed

MY THOUGHTS
LOVED IT

I am such a huge fan of this series and I cannot, WILL NOT, believe that this is the end of the story.  Even though the story happened just as I hoped, I was still a bit surprised at exactly how it all worked out. Amy had come such a long way and my fears that Elder wasn't quite right for her seem to be playing out.  I really want to say that when they finally get to Centauri - Earth, I was having Land of the Lost flashbacks - complete with bad special effects and everything, which, in my opinion was the BEST!  Talk about being able to lose yourself in a book!  There is a mini love triangle just to spice things up and the fact that the planet has been inhabited by Earthlings for centuries, just answers all of your Sci_Fi fantasies.  I really don't want to let these characters go, so maybe Revis will have pity on me and let them explore this new planet.

REVIEW: A Million Suns by Beth Revis @bethrevis @penguinteen

Book Description

Series: Across the Universe | Publication Date: January 10, 2012

Godspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.

It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision - no more Phydus, no more lies.

But when Elder discovers shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. They must work together to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier, unable to fight the romance that's growing between them and the chaos that threatens to tear them apart.

In book two of the Across the Universe trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis mesmerizes us again with a brilliantly crafted mystery filled with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: They have to get off this ship.

About the Author

Beth Revis (www.AcrosstheUniverseBook.com) is the New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe trilogy. A Million Suns is her second book. Beth lives in rural North Carolina with her husband and dog, and believes space is nowhere near the final frontier. 

 Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
• Hardcover: 386 pages
• Publisher: Razorbill; 1 edition (January 10, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159514398X
• ISBN-13: 978-1595143983

SOURCE:  AROUND THE WORLD ARC TOURS

MY THOUGHTS
ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT

*** probable spoilers - don't read the last two paragraphs if you haven't read the first book***

Never in a million years would I ever think a book about a spaceship, revolution and love would keep me up at night still thinking about a story that probably shouldn't work. I mean a sixteen year old girl is is frozen for 300 hundred years on a spaceship with her parents to go to a new planet  and is brought back to life because some kid thinks she has pretty hair and is lonely?  Elder, the guy who wakes her up early , is the soon to be leader of the spaceship, but this romance really shouldn't work out and it pretty much doesn't because the girl, Amy, thinks for herself.   I think I read this in about 6 hours while staying up too late because I just couldn't put it down. There are some serious page turning moments that come one after another.

I read a LOT of science fiction as a teen but NEVER anything like this, probably because back in the early 70's no one thought girls should be reading science fiction.  There were similar plot lines about space travel, utopian societies but they mostly had adult males as the main characters. so what a treat this story is for me in that I get to read a young adult novel about all of my favorite things with some romance thrown in!  You are drawn so quickly into this new world, it really should exist and that is the best part of how wonderfully Revis writes.

This follow up to Across the Universe picks right up where it ends with Amy and Elder alternating chapters and viewpoints about the spaceship Godspeed and how each generation has been told that they are 50 years away from landing on the new planet that will be their home.  After living in this closed environment, the inhabitants  have been drugged to keep them obedient and complacent in order to avoid a revolution that occurred on the ship ages ago called the Plague.  History of the ship has been rewritten into one that follows a party line to keep the peace on board.  Orion, himself a proposed leader and now the Recorder (librarian) knows the truth about the ship but is frozen himself. when the revolution on the ship begins once the people stop receiving the drugs.

The story is almost like a puzzle, with Amy finding clues left by Orion where she uses her intelligence and wit to find answers while Elder tries to lead the people to the truth.  The truth is pretty shocking once Amy finds the details and puts everything together.  I thought the relationship between Elder and Amy would just naturally blossom into a romance but there are lots of twists and turns that may surprise you along the way.  The secondary characters like Orion, Doc, Victria and Bartie each add something to the plot which add a bit of sinister malevolence.  Now, I can't wait until the next one!

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Book Description

Series: Across the Universe | Publication Date: January 10, 2012

Godspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.

It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision - no more Phydus, no more lies.

But when Elder discovers shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. They must work together to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier, unable to fight the romance that's growing between them and the chaos that threatens to tear them apart.

In book two of the Across the Universe trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis mesmerizes us again with a brilliantly crafted mystery filled with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: They have to get off this ship.

About the Author

Beth Revis (www.AcrosstheUniverseBook.com) is the New York Times bestselling author of the Across the Universe trilogy. A Million Suns is her second book. Beth lives in rural North Carolina with her husband and dog, and believes space is nowhere near the final frontier. 

 Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Razorbill; 1 edition (January 10, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159514398X
• ISBN-13: 978-1595143983