Goodreads Summary:
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.
This was a new take on the dystopian genre for me. I have not read one that is set in space until this book. I honestly have no clue if any others are set on a spaceship or not now that I think about it. :)
It took me over a week to get through this book, part of that may be that I was really tired every night by the time I sat down to read something not related to Political Science. I got into this book, but some of the word choices bothered me, for instance "frexing" was on probably every page and it just bothered me every time I read it. I was distracted by the tweaking of English. With most books I can get over that, but for some reason I could not look past it. I think this is due to the type of tweaking, "brilly" rather than brilliant was another that really bothered me. I have always been sensitive to how a story flows from the lips and the word choice, particularly in conversation, was choppy and harsh. I wish the dialog had been developed better.
That being said, I enjoyed the story for the most part. I was intrigued by the idea of people spending their entire lives on a ship without ever having seen a sun or moon and not going completely crazy. I discovered that the whole ship is being drugged. Which makes sense, I don't know anyone who would be content in a steel box for life. I enjoyed the flip flop of perspectives from chapter to chapter, Amy and Elder taking turns in the narrative wasn't annoying like it is in other books.
**SPOILER ALERT**
I am looking forward to the next book to see if they fix the problem of being over 150 years behind schedule. The ship is slowing down and unable to run at half speed. I wonder if Amy is going to wake up the other frozen cargo to see if they can help figure out the problem of the slow engine core. Also, will Amy ever see her parents thawed? I hope to have time for the second book over the Christmas Holiday.
I would recommend this one to fans of dystopian fiction. I wouldn't say the writing is strong enough to draw in anyone who isn't interested in the genre. Overall I would say I have lukewarm feelings on this one.
While writing this review I was listening to Rihanna and Justin Timberlake.
