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Beth Revis
Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Passengers!WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber.Someone tried to murder her.Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead.Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.
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Author
Beth Revis
Pages
448
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2011-01-11
ISBN
1101486082 9781101486085
Ratings
Google: 3.5
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"I’ve been in such a space mood lately and have had this sitting on my shelf for years that I thought it was time to pick it up and I’m glad I did.
This story follows Amy and Elder. Amy is going with her parents on this space ship that will supposedly land in three hundred years and when it does, they will be unfrozen and be able to start a new life on this planet however Amy ends up waking up fifty years early. Elder is next in line to become the next eldest, the one who rules the ship. The two of them start navigating life on the ship and realize not everything is as it seems.
I really enjoyed this book. I loved the setting of the space ship and you really felt like you were there with the characters. I loved the atmosphere it gave off and was also creeped out by it at the same time.
The characters were wonderful. I really cared about the characters and rooted for them and their happiness though they have still quite the ways to go until they get there.
The romance, though I enjoyed, I felt was a little unnecessary for the first book. There was a random kiss in the middle that was never talked about or brought up again and it also didn’t change anything for the characters afterwards. I am excited to see the development of their relationship in future books.
Overall I really enjoyed this book and if you enjoy light space books that are easy to understand, I definitely recommend this one."
"If you liked "Alone out Here" or "Passengers", then this exploration via a multi- generational ship space adventure will capture your attention. It touches on some topics that some people might not like but I highly enjoyed flipping through the many layers of characters and plot through out this book. 8/10"
"I was going to give this book three stars because about 250 pages through a 400 page book, I felt that nothing important happened, then those last 150 pages happened and you learned exactly what was going on with the Godspeed, why Amy was there, why a particular character (I won't spoil) was killing the people in the cryochambers! EVERYTHING WAS REVEALED AND IT WAS WORTH IT! On to book 2!"
"Fun quick fluffy read. This book tries really hard to be deep and serious and dark, but it is none of those things. It was super easy to figure out the bad guys. I liked most of the characters even though the teenagers did seem a bit childish at times. I raced through it and overall, it was quite enjoyable."
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Rebekah Travis
"Well this book has quite the misleading cover. It presents it as romance...IN SPACE! I'm sure there will be romance later in the trilogy but this one didn't really even set the groundwork. I only think there will be romance because a) the cover b)most YA novels that have a male and female have romance. There was no real chemistry--just a guy who thinks she's hot and has sunset-colored hair. Which by the way, how would he even know what sunset-colored hair looked like? In the chapter previous to him seeing Amy, Elder talks about never knowing the sun since he's lived on the ship his whole life, and it's only Harley who goes on about how the sun causes great shadows/light, etc.<br/><br/>My dislike of the book isn't even because of the lack of romance. My first issue was the unbelievability of the science aspect, but I would have been willing to suspend my disbelief if either the thriller aspect had been better, or at least the characters more developed. I didn't guess all aspects of the plot but I would say the things that were the big reveal, well weren't that revealing. The middle to 3/4 of the book were the most interesting--when you discover the how/why of Eldest's way of running the ship. I presume we're supposed to see him as evil since Elder and Amy keep calling him evil, but he isn't all that evil. Is what he's doing right? Well, I feel that's up to debate. I don't feel it's so black and white as Elder and Amy make it seem--which maybe they discover in the later books. <br/><br/>Elder is an alright guy--perhaps not the sharpest tool in the shed, but his using "frexing" every other sentence got irritating. (Frexing and brilly are some of the new slang in the future.)But compared to Amy, Elder was the more likeable character. Amy is melodramatic about everything. Her sections (the book switches between her and Elder's POV) always end with things like "it's just another nightmare" or "I have just replaced one box for another" or "There is nowhere to run." It just made the actual dramatic things seem less so. And although she did not say frexing or brilly instead she kept saying "daddy.""
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