January 2011 - Reading

  

Lili St. Crow: Strange Angel Series: Books 1-3

3 Stars

How did I not know about Ass Kicking Dru Anderson! I feel cheated!

I can't wait to read the 4th book in the series.

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Cynthia Hand - Unearthly

3 Stars

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Ellen Schreiber: Vampire Kisses Sereies: Books 1-3

0 Stars

Disappointed, Thought it would maybe get better - NO! Glad I wasted No $ here - just 2 days worth of reading time - Blah! I really did try, but about twenty minutes into the 3rd book, I gave up. This has got to be the first time, ever, that I was able to close a book and walk away! I don't even think I could have enjoyed reading this at age 10!

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Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy Series: Books 1-6

3 to 4 Stars

I loved it. Didn't think I would - but I will gladly admit to being wrong. A little upset that it ends with #6. Though I hear, a spin-off series is in the makes!

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Jennifer Murgia - Angel Star

2 Stars

Came across this book by accident, but it wasn't all bad. Interesting, though I wished the author took the time to develop the characters more. Good, for a quick / easy read. Curiosity has the best of me, and I am tilting towards reading the next in the series.

Across the Universe - Beth Revis

Across the Universe
By Beth Revis

January 2011

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Young Adult

Source: Library Thing

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

 

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone–one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship–tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed’s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there’s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

I have always managed to steer away from sci-fi novels. For some reason I never really thought I would find myself enjoying them. When I received the ARC edition, I kept putting it off, and I am sad to admit I only finally picked it up from lack of having anything else to read at the moment. However, Beth Revis, has captured me and opened my eyes to a whole new genre.

Across the Universe, starts off with such intensity. It throws us into the thoughts of Amy, who is filled with such strong emotion and fear just before she is about to be frozen and thrust into the unknown future. From that point on I was completely hooked.

With suspenseful twists and turns that leave you gripping for more, I couldn’t put the book down, and found myself excited with every turn of the page. BR has written a wonderful story that grabs your attention by providing a captivating sci-fi murder-mystery in a dystopian world that will keep you on edge. Just when you think you have it all figured out, you realize it’s just another red herring.

I can’t wait to grab hold of her next book in this mind-blowing series.

3 STARS