Book Review - Across the Universe

"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." - The book synopsis 

Now I know we must never judge a book by its cover but that was the reason I picked up the book, it was because of the lovely cover. The colours are so vibrant that I thought the words inside the book would match up but they didn't.

I felt the male character Elder was very hard to like and I had trouble understanding his role in the book as a person not as a leader. When he first saw Amy lying in her ice block and only thing he could think about was being with her. He become so consumed by her that he almost killed her by disconnecting the ice box she was lying in.
It was like he expected her to fall in love with him as soon as she woke up without realizing that she could of died but in the end Amy survive it so everything was alright for him. 
Overall he only seemed to care about what he wanted and getting it.

Amy was more likeable then he was. I would of felt the same way, waking up how many years away from landing alone and confused. I felt sorry for her at some points knowing she would be older then her parents by the time Godspeed lands on the new planet which in the book was said to be different amount of years before it was going to actually get there.

Eldest was a horrible character in my eyes and I found it really hard to concentrate on reading when he was in the scenes.

On a plus note the author's explanation of Godspeed was done well and I could imagine it very easily when the characters were talking about it.

Overall I liked some characters and scene development but disliked others.

Across the Universe - Beth Revis (3 stars)