The first chapter of A Million Suns by Beth Revis is now available on the Across the Universe Facebook page.

A Million Suns is the highly anticipated second book in Revis’ Across the Universe Series.  The story continues only a short time from where the first book left off and still has an alternating point of view between Elder and Amy.

Chapter 1:

“THIS ISN’T GOING TO BE EASY,” I MUTTER, STARING AT THE solid metal door that leads to the Engine Room on the Shipper Level of Godspeed. In the dull refection, I see Eldest’s dark eyes, just before hedied. I see the smirk on the corner of Orion’s mouth as he relished inEldest’s death. Somewhere, beneath my cloned features and the echoes of every Eldest before me, there has to be something in me that’s mine alone,unique and not found in the cloning material two levels beneath my feet.I like to think that, anyway.I roll my thumb over the biometric scanner and the door zips open,taking with it the image of a face that has never felt like mine. A very mechanical smell—a mixture of metal and grease and burn-ing—wraps around me as I enter the Engine Room. The walls vibrate with the muffed heartbeat of the ship’s engine, a whirr-churn-whirr sound that I used to think was beautiful. The first-level Shippers stand at attention, waiting for me. The Engine Room is usually crowded, bustling with activity as the Shippers try to figure out what has crippled the lead-cooled fast reactor engine, but today…[MORE]

What do you think of the first chapter? Beth Revis has said that there are two lies told in the first book that we will discover in the second, what do you think the lies are?

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