So I got sick, had three major assignments to finish, ended up needing to replace my laptop, and had an identity crisis. All in all, a great weekend...not. Ha. I'm trying to keep up with my five-posts-a-week goal, but I might be incommunicado till I finish this unit. We'll see.
Anyway, In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi of
The Story Siren, and it's normally done on Sundays to share books borrowed, bought, or otherwise received. This week I splurged and broke into my Christmas B&N gift cards to get...
...an e-copy of
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.
I'm about a quarter of the way through so far and am quite frankly disappointed...I was really hoping for some hard deep space sci-fi
2001: A Space Odyssey style (or even better, sci-fi horror/mystery a la
Alien) but so far the ship has only acted as a background for the romance. Ah, well...anyway, looks like I won't finish this review in time for the January debut prize pack, but I'll try and post it once I work through my long backlist of reads I haven't reviewed.
I'm a day late for the meme, but I'd still like to know...what did you get in your mailboxes this week?
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Read This Week
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
