Book Spotlight: Across the Universe by Beth Revis

There has been a lot of hype surrounding this upcoming science fiction young adult read. I have been seeing it everywhere and the more I see it the more I want to read it. Not because it's got an already huge following, but because the premise sounds amazing. Here it is:

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.

Sounds cool, huh? Then there's this book trailer that came out not too long ago:



I think the trailer is very well done! I cannot wait to read this. It comes out January 11th, 2011.

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Book Spotlight: Geist by Philippa Ballantine

Today is the release of Geist by Philipa Ballantine! I'm looking forward to reading this book and wanted to share it with you. Here's the synopsis from Goodreads:

Between the living and the dead is the Order of the Deacons, protectors of the Empire, guardians against possession, sentinels enlisted to ward off the malevolent haunting of the geists...

Among the most powerful of the Order is Sorcha, now thrust into partnership with the novice Deacon, Merrick Chambers. They have been dispatched to the isolated village of Ulrich to aide the Priory with a surge of violent geist activity. With them is Raed Rossin, Pretender to the throne that Sorcha is sworn to protect, and bearer of a terrible curse.

But what greets them in the strange settlement is something far more predatory and more horrifying than any mere haunting. And as she uncovers a tradition of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history, Sorcha will be forced to reconsider everything she thinks she knows.
And if she makes it out of Ulrich alive, what in Hell is she returning to?

There's also a book trailer! Take a look:

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