A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Feb 19, 2014 Marla rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery, back-to-back, serial-killers, zz-2014, dystopia, young-adult, series, romance, science-fiction, challenged

3.5 stars. Elder doesn't want to become Eldest. The ship is going to take a lot longer than originally thought to get to the new planet. Lots of secrets and even more dissension. Many questions are still unanswered.

Likes:
* Orion's scavenger hunt for Amy
* Art and literature clues
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May 21, 2012 Nairabell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-star, teen-ya-sci-fi, read-in-2012, read-in-2013

Amy is trapped upon the Godspeed, woken from her cryogenic sleep decades early and her only friend is Elder. Elder is now leader of the ship but rebellion threatens as he struggles to take charge. Torn between her feelings for him and the chaos beginning to pull the ship apart, Amy stumbles across the first in a series of clues to a deeper mystery. Godspeed has more secrets to reveal...but will Amy survive learning them?

This is the second book in the Across the Universe trilogy (after Across the Amy is trapped upon the Godspeed, woken from her cryogenic sleep decades early and her only friend is Elder. Elder is now leader of the ship but rebellion threatens as he struggles to take charge. Torn between her feelings for him and the chaos beginning to pull the ship apart, Amy stumbles across the first in a series of clues to a deeper mystery. Godspeed has more secrets to reveal...but will Amy survive learning them?

This is the second book in the Across the Universe trilogy (after Across the Universe) which I adored, devoured in a single day and then grabbed a copy of this the next morning. After all of the mysteries solved and secrets revealed in the first book, I didn't think there could be much more to come. I was wrong. Really really wrong. This is full of even more twists and turns and hidden secrets than the first book.

I was glued to the page throughout as the action unfolded, from the opening scenes of Elder meeting with the shippers (who control the ship) and Amy talking to her still-frozen parents to the shocking revelations and dramatic choices of the ending. This book is so well written, so detailed, so deviously twisted I couldn't put it down.

Amy and Elder have both grown and matured over the three months since her awakening. Their developing feelings for each other are somewhat pushed into the background as they struggle with their new roles and responsibilities. For Elder the change is the most dramatic. He is now leader of the Godspeed but he is finding it hard to step into Eldest's shoes and it turns out that there was much he hadn't learnt.

The dystopian element is still going strong and is even more pronounced in this book as the inhabitants of Godspeed start questioning their lives and the system of control. While everyone was happy to be a farmer or a weaver or a shipper before, now people are coming into their own identities which frequently clash with the established order of things. Godspeed is unravelling into chaos but how can you escape from a spaceship in space?

All in all this was another awesome read and I can't wait for Shades of Earth.

Plot: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Ending: 10/10
Enjoyment: 10/10
Cover: 9/10

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Mar 25, 2011 Samantha rated it liked it

Shelves: 2012

This one didn't wow me, but wasn't terrible either. The premise of the plot is starting to feel thin and I'm hoping the next book can turn that around. I did like that Elder and Amy didn't have to agree on everything and that they could just agree to disagree. Yet some details and events, especially in regard to how Elder dealt with many of the ship's problems was naive (which is realistic, I guess, for their age). I'm willing to give the next book a chance, but I'm not getting my hopes up too h ...more

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Oct 15, 2011 The Flooze marked it as to-read

Shelves: owned, sci-fi, ya_teen, it-s_a_shit_world_after_all

ARC - NYCC

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Feb 18, 2013 Mafi rated it really liked it

Shelves: ebook, eng, 2013

Beth Revis conseguiu manter um enredo bastante interessante, onde praticamente todo espaço se centra no mesmo lugar e o ritmo de acção começa lento mas vai ganhando fulgor até às páginas finais que se viram numa velocidade estonteante.

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Jul 26, 2011 Dichotomy Girl rated it liked it

Shelves: 2012, sci-fi, ya

I am not usually one to review subsequent books in a series. As it's almost impossible to NOT give things away to those who haven't yet read the first book.

This book was a strange read for me. I had a hard time getting into it at first. I found the constant switching of POV to be annoying, and the constant tension to be actually anxiety-inducing.

However, as things really picked up in the 2nd half of the book, I'm very glad that I didn't give up on this one! ...more

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