A million suns
I have to admit, my expectations for Across the Universe was very high and even though it wasn’t exactly what I expected, it really lived up to those expectations. Thus, it was only natural that my expectations for the sequel, A million suns, would be even higher. And there are few things I love more than books that live up to expectations. A million suns definitely did this.
In Across the Universe, we meet Amy and Elder. Amy, a girl from earth who chooses to follow her parents on a mission across the universe, in search of a new planet to live on. This means that she leaves her live on earth behind to be frozen for three hundred years during the trip to the new planet. But Amy is awoken too early and all off a sudden a resident on the ship Godspeed where she meets Elder, the guy who one day will take over the leadership of the entire ship.
In A million suns, Amy has accepted the fact that she is awake and can't be refrozen, as well as the fact that she will never see her parents again. But she has not accepted a life onboard Godspeed and the walls are pressing in on her, more and more each day that passes. Elder, on the either hand, has taken over the leadership role after Eldest died, but it’s not very easy to rule a ship of nearly three thousand people when they aren’t on Phydus anymore. Elder does the best he can, but Godspeed’s residence are starting to ask questions as to why Elder is in charge and as the days go by, the ship is in more and more distress. There are talks of a revolution and people dies right and left, killed in Elder’s name. While Elder tries to calm everything down, Amy searches around the ship for clues left for her by Orion, a man she hates but now, frozen in a cryo chamber, asks Amy to make a very difficult choice. And in between the search of these mysterious clues, the riots and the revolution that doesn’t seem far away, Amy and Elder gets closer in their relationship and Amy realizes that there is something quite real between them.
A million suns is an action packed story and I mean that. Even the shortest chapters are filled with exiting revelations and things that will make you bit your nails while asking What will happen next? One thing I really love with the story itself is that Beth Revis has written it in both Amy’s and Elder’s perspective, every other chapter. I think it’s fun to read out of both main characters perspective, getting to know exactly what they think about the same thing, because it’s usually very different. And it’s always interesting to get inside two characters heads. It works perfectly in Revis story as well and I think that is very much due to how different Amy and Elder are. They see each other differently, they see everything around them differently. Elder has only ever known Godspeed, but Amy has been on a planet. The difference between them is huge, interesting and very fun to read through both perspective.
Reading A million suns made my heart beat faster out of nervousness and adrenalin and once I started reading, it was practically impossible to stop. Revis writes in a way that will make you turn page after page without realizing it until you’re halfway through the book and you think How did this happen? Another one of Revis strengths is chocking with her writing. You never know what will happen next or who will die, because no one is safe. And that makes it even more fun to read.
All in all, A million suns is a well written, fun and action packed nail biter that you won’t forget in a rush. Across the Universe was good, but A million suns was better. The perfect sequel that just grows and grows and then erupts in firework only to explode and leave the reader yarning for more, yarning to know what happens next. I can’t wait until I have the final piece of the trilogy in my hand and can see for myself.
In Across the Universe, we meet Amy and Elder. Amy, a girl from earth who chooses to follow her parents on a mission across the universe, in search of a new planet to live on. This means that she leaves her live on earth behind to be frozen for three hundred years during the trip to the new planet. But Amy is awoken too early and all off a sudden a resident on the ship Godspeed where she meets Elder, the guy who one day will take over the leadership of the entire ship.
In A million suns, Amy has accepted the fact that she is awake and can't be refrozen, as well as the fact that she will never see her parents again. But she has not accepted a life onboard Godspeed and the walls are pressing in on her, more and more each day that passes. Elder, on the either hand, has taken over the leadership role after Eldest died, but it’s not very easy to rule a ship of nearly three thousand people when they aren’t on Phydus anymore. Elder does the best he can, but Godspeed’s residence are starting to ask questions as to why Elder is in charge and as the days go by, the ship is in more and more distress. There are talks of a revolution and people dies right and left, killed in Elder’s name. While Elder tries to calm everything down, Amy searches around the ship for clues left for her by Orion, a man she hates but now, frozen in a cryo chamber, asks Amy to make a very difficult choice. And in between the search of these mysterious clues, the riots and the revolution that doesn’t seem far away, Amy and Elder gets closer in their relationship and Amy realizes that there is something quite real between them.
A million suns is an action packed story and I mean that. Even the shortest chapters are filled with exiting revelations and things that will make you bit your nails while asking What will happen next? One thing I really love with the story itself is that Beth Revis has written it in both Amy’s and Elder’s perspective, every other chapter. I think it’s fun to read out of both main characters perspective, getting to know exactly what they think about the same thing, because it’s usually very different. And it’s always interesting to get inside two characters heads. It works perfectly in Revis story as well and I think that is very much due to how different Amy and Elder are. They see each other differently, they see everything around them differently. Elder has only ever known Godspeed, but Amy has been on a planet. The difference between them is huge, interesting and very fun to read through both perspective.
Reading A million suns made my heart beat faster out of nervousness and adrenalin and once I started reading, it was practically impossible to stop. Revis writes in a way that will make you turn page after page without realizing it until you’re halfway through the book and you think How did this happen? Another one of Revis strengths is chocking with her writing. You never know what will happen next or who will die, because no one is safe. And that makes it even more fun to read.
All in all, A million suns is a well written, fun and action packed nail biter that you won’t forget in a rush. Across the Universe was good, but A million suns was better. The perfect sequel that just grows and grows and then erupts in firework only to explode and leave the reader yarning for more, yarning to know what happens next. I can’t wait until I have the final piece of the trilogy in my hand and can see for myself.