Age: Middle School-High School

An intriguing "who-done-it" plot line as Amy tries to unravel the secrets of a big ass ship. These mysteries definitely kept me glued to the plot line. The novel also tends to move fast because it is told from two different narrators: Amy and Elder. I really admired what Revis did with two juxtaposing leadership roles.

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Eldest leads the ship based on control, subservience, and effectiveness that is easily accomplished by drugging the ship's population. He did this based on a mutiny that resulted from the ship's people knowing the truth about the ship's decreasing speed. Although it is effective and no one is physically harmed, Elder finally determines that an absolute control-based leadership hinders thought and ingenuity in fixing the problem. His role as leader should not be to stagnate progress with lies, but reassure the population that through hard work and unity they can fix the problem of the ship's engines.

The romance between Amy and Elder was a little blah. At first I thought Elder fell in love with Amy based solely on looks (ugh) but it turns out

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that he wanted to unfreeze Amy in order to find out what it was like to live on Soul Earth. He didn't want to unfreeze her based solely on her beauty but on her past. An interesting twist but I felt like Elder was more interested in the mysteries of the ship, rather than the mysteries of Soul Earth.

"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" (Goodreads feature review).