{"id":1479,"date":"2012-06-18T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T22:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2012-06-18T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T22:43:25","slug":"review-across-the-universe-by-beth-revis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/review-across-the-universe-by-beth-revis\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Across The Universe by Beth Revis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8235178-across-the-universe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1301828495m\/8235178.jpg\" alt=\"Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8235178-across-the-universe\">Across the Universe<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4018722.Beth_Revis\">Beth Revis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/350988719\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Distopian? SF? YA? Yes and no to all. This fabulous novel transcends all genres. An original and compelling first novel, that&#8217;s for sure. Must now read the second one.<\/p>\n<p>I love the premise &#8212; Amy leaving typical teen life behind to be frozen and launched on a ship for 301 years of travel to an earth-like planet in a different galaxy. A second narrator &#8212; Elder &#8212; a young man destined to be the leader on this aircraft transporting Amy, her parents, and the other scientists and settlers for the destination planet.<\/p>\n<p>But much as this sounds like it would be all about transponder rings and metal hats, it isn&#8217;t. Against a backdrop of a believable future, we get nuanced characters, a murder mystery, lots of suspense, and a hint of romance.<\/p>\n<p>Well done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/230503-marsha\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the Universe by Beth Revis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Distopian? SF? YA? Yes and no to all. This fabulous novel transcends all genres. An original and compelling first novel, that&#8217;s for sure. Must now read the second one. I love the premise &#8212; Amy leaving typical teen life behind to be frozen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/review-across-the-universe-by-beth-revis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Across The Universe by Beth Revis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}