"The Body Electric" by Beth Revis

Genre: Sci-Fi YA
Format: ARC E-Book
Publication: October 6, 2014
Cover Rating: 3/5 Stars
Links: Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

From Goodreads: The future world is at peace.

Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift—the ability to enter people’s dreams and memories using technology developed by her mother—to help others relive their happy memories.

But not all is at it seems.

Ella starts seeing impossible things—images of her dead father, warnings of who she cannot trust. Her government recruits her to spy on a rebel group, using her ability to experience—and influence—the memories of traitors. But the leader of the rebels claims they used to be in love—even though Ella’s never met him before in her life. Which can only mean one thing…

Someone’s altered her memory.

Ella’s gift is enough to overthrow a corrupt government or crush a growing rebel group. She is the key to stopping a war she didn’t even know was happening. But if someone else has been inside Ella’s head, she cannot trust her own memories, thoughts, or feelings.

So who can she trust?

My Thoughts: Sci-Fi Queen Beth Revis does it again! When I first ran across this little gem on Netgalley I couldn't believe it. When I got accepted to review it, I fangirled. After reading Across the Universe, I knew Revis was going to become one of my favorite authors. The lady knows how to write good Science Fiction, with just the right mix of futuristic adventure, romance, and one kick-butt heroine, you can't help but fall in love with her stories. The Body Electric held all these things and more. Ella is one interesting main character, with just the right amount of mystery surrounding her to keep you turning the pages late into the night. And the chemistry she automatically has with Jack is very well-done. Not to mention the futuristic world Revis has painted is scary and epic. My only compliment is that I wish this would have been turned into a series, because it absolutely could have been! But alas, it's a stand-alone set in the future world of where Across the Universe left off. But don't fear! You can still read this one by itself. Besides a quick mention of the ship from AtU, there's no spoilers and it's completely safe.

Bottom Line: If you like YA Science Fiction or Terminator, then you'll enjoy this one. If you're more into the heavy romance you may want to skip it.

Rating: 4/5 Stars

"Across the Universe" by Beth Revis

Title: Across the Universe
By: Beth Revis
Publication: January 11, 2011 by Razorbill
Format: Hardback
Genre: Science Fiction (w/ Romance)
Cover Rating: 5/5 Stars

From Goodreads: 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.


My Thoughts: When Amy's family gets chosen to be part of special mission to explore and inhabit a new plant, she knows that she will have to say goodbye to everything, and everyone, she loves- including her boyfriend Jason. Because this trip isn't just a hop to the moon... it's 350 years away. Set in the not so distant future, Amy and her parents have been selected to be cryogenically frozen to make the trip to centauri earth- the new planet that has the resources humans require to survive. However, while Amy's been frozen for hundreds of years, a whole society has been living on and operating Godspeed, the space ship carrying the frozen future citizens. Abruptly, and dangerously, awoken 50 years too early, Amy has to come to terms that she is stuck on a space ship filled with a community who thinks of her as a freak because of her differences. Not to mention the tyrant, Eldest, who rules them and seems to loathe Amy's very presence. The only confident she has is Elder, the future leader of Godspeed, and his best friend Harley. But someone on the ship isn't done unplugging the frozen members, leaving Amy's parents and the future race of Centauri-Earth at risk. Floating utterly alone in space, Godspeed and it's populace is in for a shocking revelation that will cause disastrous results.

 I LOVED this intensely creative novel! And it's not just for Trekkies and Space Geeks like me, it's got something for everyone. It's not just a romance, or just a science fiction novel. It's got everything- murder, mystery, romance, science fiction, and coming of age. It just flows perfectly together, creating one hell of an entertaining ride through space.

Overflowing with originality on every page, Across the Universe, is told in alternating POV's from Amy and Elder. The more I read these types of narrations, the more I fall in love with them. To me, it gives the story a more three dimensional quality when I can get the fuller picture.

This book is definitely one of a kind and not to be missed! Beth Revis is a genius and I am just itching to get my hands on the next installment!

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