Across the Universe by Beth Revis

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. 

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.

Okay let's start with the cover. This is maybe one of the most beautiful book covers like, ever. But it;s seriously misleading. The reason I held off on reading this so long is because the cover made me think it was a sappy sci-fi/romance novel, but it hardly is any romance (thank God). The story was more centered around politics and secrets and things like that.

Now. This book was ultra spectacularly AMAZEBALLS. Beth Revis did a great job with the characters. My favorite was definitely Harley. He felt so real to me. I could feel the sadness and longing that he felt for the outside world. Also I could feel the pain Amy felt at losing everything she loved. 

But OHEMGEE THOSE PLOT TWISTS. Beth Revis let you think you knew exactly what's going on just to turn around and smack with some bomb-tacular plot twist. Had me curled up in a ball crying.

I'd recommend this to anyone who likes young adult sci-fi. (P.S. If you were hoping for a bunch of romance, don't read this. Not too much romance in it.)