Book #24

Across the Universe by Beth Revis
398 pages
Not really sure the type
So this book took over my whole entire life (stealing Mrs. K's phrase)!! It's Kind of a sci-fi romance with some mystery thrown into it.
Amy is seventeen and her parents are making her make the hardest decision of her life so far. She can either journey to another planet almost 300 years away with her parents by being cryogenically frozen, or she could stay behind on Earth with her Aunt, Uncle, and boyfriend but never see her parents again. She is supposed to be frozen after her mom but before he dad, her mother thinks that her father will make Amy go before him so she has to go but her father surprises her by letting her make the choice. It's not made any easier by the fact that the process of being frozen is a most horrific experience including tubes and wires being jammed down the throat, eyes being glued shut, and a feeling of being drowned. The description of this process made me cringe inside at the idea of this actually happening to a person. So Amy decides that she would rather go with her parents and goes through the painful process. She is awoken in an excrutiatingly painful matter and then finds out that it was 50 years too early!! It seems that she is also the first in a string of murders of the people who are frozen. This new world is a mystery to Amy as it is full of people who live by different rules and customs. This monoethnic people is ruled by a tyrannical old man named Eldest and his successor teenaged Elder. To Eldest she represents difference and that cannot be tolerated in this heavily sedated community who has lost almost all knowledge of their history and Earths' past. Now Amy must uncover the secrets that the ship is hiding, find the murderer before he kills her parents, and deal with this strange new world all while falling in love with someone who could betray her.