Across the Universe by Beth Revis is a science fiction book where a new planet has been discovered, and a team of people are being sent out to see if it is habitable. Among these people is 17-year-old Amy, who is leaving behind her boyfriend, her extended family, and her promising future as a runner to follow her parents as a member aboard the ship. They are cryogenically frozen and told they will be woken up in 300 years when the ship lands upon the new planet, Centauri-Earth. Yet, 250 years later, Amy is unplugged, and would've lost her life if it wasn't for the future leader of Godspeed (the ship) finding her and saving her. Now she has to figure out who unplugged her and stop them as more frozen members are being unplugged and killed. I gave this book 4 stars, because it was very promising for a first book to a series, but it took me a while to get into. It's told in two points of view, by Amy and Elder, and even though they both think very differently, they didn't seem to have very different voices, and I would get really confused whose point of view I was reading from. I really liked some of the abnormal text, where the words formatted like a staircase (I'd say the page number but I don't own the book). I felt like Amy was bursting at the seams with opinions and whatnot, and I didn't really like her. Elder somewhat fell flat, he just didn't really have any flaws, which kind of bugged me. I also didn't really appreciate the insta-love between them, which was mainly on Elder's part. You honestly can't just force two characters together because they're the same age and opposite genders. There's also just this massive info dump at the end which bugged me just because I waited a few weeks before reading the next review, and forgot almost everything in the info dump, so how is someone supposed to wait a year and remember every little detail? Usually, I hate when books recap, but in this case, you need one if there's an info dump at the end. Now, if you don't know, the cover for Across the Universe was changed twice! The original is this beautiful star studded version with Elder staring at Amy (and you'll see this scene in the book). When I saw the original cover at the library, I immediately checked the book out without even reading the description because it was so beautiful. Then, when the second book came out, they tried changing the cover, to Amy walking down the hall and pointing off into the distance. It was okay, but not as capturing as the first one and it was pretty boring too. At least the first one showed stars, which actually play a big role in the book and hint at the sci-fi genre. Then, they change it to an industrial-type thing with broken ice and a black blob. I-I-I DON'T COMPREHEND HOW THEY COULD EVEN FATHOM THAT BLACK BLOB OR POINTY THING WOULD EVEN COME CLOSE TO PRETTY STARS. I JUST DON'T. Maybe it didn't appeal to guys, even though its told in dual points of view by Amy and Elder. Solid 4 stars for me, and I would recommend reading it, even if you don't like sci-fi because I'm not a huge sci-fi fan myself. 
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