Beth Revis is the autor of Across the Universe and its sequel A Million Suns (just released this January!).I haven't read either of these libros yet (mostly because they are never on the shelves in my library--Good for Beth, bad for Small!), but they're on my TBR and I've spent más time than I should probably admit to oogling their gorgeous covers. I've also managed to sneak a peek at the first chapter and WOW, talk about dramatic!

Beth was kind enough to stop por today and answer some of my very important preguntas (you know, about besar and stuff).





Q: Which one of your characters would you...

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Recommended. For readers of young adult fiction, whether you're a teenager yourself o just like the genre, there have never been más choices. Dystopian YA fiction is a particularly trendy category these days. Science fiction writers have always imagined dystopias, o futuristic societies ruled por oppressive governments, where the freedoms we enjoy today have vanished. reciente series, such as Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and Scott Westerfield's Uglies, have brought the concept to a younger audience.


Across the Universe por Beth Revis also presents a dystopia, but with a twist....

Synopsis: A amor 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 Valiente new world of a spaceship that lives por 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...

On the “Release Eve” of her debut novel, Across the Universe, we’d like to introduce tu to Beth Revis.
Beth has a great website, so it was hard to find preguntas that she hadn’t already answered. After putting on my thinking cap, I managed to come up with some things to ask that hadn’t already been answered. Beth is a former English teacher who left that profession in June of 2010 in order to pursue escritura full time. Here’s what Beth had to say:
Eve’s fan Garden: How did tu come up with the idea for Across the Universe?

Beth Revis: It all came from an idea for the twist at the...