

The inhabitants on board notice the leader emerging, but internally he is still just a teenage boy with juvenile ideals. Elder's development is more external than internal.

She is clearly tackling the idea that she may actually love Elder, but is torn weather or not to tell him. Amy developed a deeper and quirky side to both her emotions and humor. The characters develop much quicker in the second novel than the first. Regardless of it being fiction, some aspects are far from believable and would have benefited from being more plausible, especially for the scientifically minded.

Some events in the book should perhaps have been researched a little more. "A murder mystery, a budding romance, and a dystopian world gracefully integrated into a sci-fi novel that blows away all expectation.At times I despised Amy's inability to think of anything or anyone outside her field of view, with the only exception being her parents. "A murder mystery, a budding romance, and a dystopian world gracefully integrated into a sci-fi novel that blows away all expectation." -Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Lovely "Entirely original, deeply compelling, and totally unputdownable-I've found a new favorite!" -Carrie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth

But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead.Īmy desperately wants to trust Elder. Godspeed's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. She has left her boyfriend, friends-and planet-behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?Īmy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus!
