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    Shades of Earth

    Written by Beth Revis

    Narrated by Tara Carrozza and Lucas Salvagno

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    The final book in the trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis!

    Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise that Amy had been hoping for. Amy and Elder must race to uncover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. But as each new discovery brings more danger, Amy and Elder will have to look inward to the very fabric of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been meaningless.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 15, 2013
    ISBN9781101601662
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    • 5/5
      BookNook — Young Adult book reviewsThis. Book. Has. So. Much. Death.Beth Revis is like a fiction mass murderer. I did not expect so many people to die in Shades of Earth. It's written like a realistic war book. There is violence, there is devastation, and there are casualties. People you love will die. People you hate will die. People you never got to know—who you were indifferent about—will die,Shades of Earth is a brilliant conclusion to the Across the Universe series, and you will not be disappointed! We get all the answers that we longed for since the first book and they will blow your mind! Despite all the death and destruction, this book is really satisfying. I loved seeing everything unravel and putting all the pieces together!It was around the halfway point that this book became truly un-put-down-able. Each chapter would end on a treacherous cliffhanger, that left me with no choice but to keep reading and power through the book! It got even worse when Elder and Amy were physically separated so with each cliffhanger, I would have to power through the other person's chapter, just to find out what happened to the first person!Amy's character development was phenomenal. She has always been a pretty strong character, but by the end of the book, she was pretty incredible! She honestly had me shaking in my boots a little bit. She became so badass, so determined, and so do-not-fucking-mess-with-me.One thing that did annoy me was the small love triangle that developed.. ugh. Like so many love triangles, it just felt pretty pointless. Luckily it was kind of subtle and definitely didn't dominate the book. Most of the book was all about the murder, the mystery, pushing away the lies, and uncovering the truth.My other small annoyance is a spoiler, so... I just couldn't sympathize with the hybrids. Honestly they were just so closed-minded and stupid. Like "Oh my god humans have arrived, THEY ARE THE ENEMY! LET'S BLAME THEM FOR THINGS THAT THEY DIDN'T DO, BUT OTHER PEOPLE IN THEIR SPECIES DID! Let's shoot first and think later!" I mean, god... Are people still that stupid hundreds of years from now? Let's blame the entire human race for what ONE group of people hundreds of years away did. That's just stupid. And in some ways, I guess that was the whole point. But the fact that I couldn't sympathize with them AT ALL was a little annoying. I would have preferred a conflict that I could relate to a bit more.But ultimately, this book rocked. Fans of the Across the Universe series will not be disappointed! This book has all the same factors that made me fall in love with the previous books. We have realistic devastation (not everyone makes it out alive), true horrors, political corruption, lies, manipulation, and romance. It's pretty awesome to have that all packed into one epic book!
    • 3/5
      This was the last book in the trilogy. It finishes off the long struggle of Elder and Amy trying to get to the new earth, Centauri-Earth. Sol-Earth is where we are now. I don't know if in 33 years we would have the capabilities to launch a shuttle to another planet so far away that the shuttle can orbit for 500 years. But that is what happens. This is all about them landing on Centauri-Earth and what they encounter as they try to start a new life off the ship Godspeed. The frozens are awakened and everything changes. This is a good young adult trilogy and worth the read. You never know what could happen in the future...
    • 4/5
      I really liked this book. It was not what I expected and held my attention the whole way through.
    • 5/5
      Most definitely the best installment of this series!! Highly recommend!!
    • 5/5
      i loved everything except the ending and the cover.
    • 5/5
      **THIS REVIEW WILL HAVE SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST 2 NOVELS**A fine conclusion to a fascinating trilogy.I’m not sure what exactly I was expecting when I picked up the first “Across the Universe” title. I’m pretty sure I just liked the cover. But it wasn’t long until I was completely drawn in by the story and Beth Revis’ fascinating world-building. In this newest (and final) addition to the series, Elder and Amy have finally made it to Centauri-Earth and all the “frozens,” including Amy’s parents , are about to come to life. But instead of this being the end of their journey, it is only the beginning. The new planet has monsters to fight, toxic plants, and something… or someone… is picking off members of the Godspeed’s colony one-by-one. This novel is just as fun as the first one, as now Revis gets a chance to try out her universe-creating skills on a whole new planet. And just like in the other novels, there’s plenty of opportunity for romance, adventure, mystery and murder. Brace yourself: The body count in this one is huge! And, most excitingly, there's way more to the story of the Godspeed than you thought there was. Revis left us thinking we had all the answers... well, we did not!The only real drawback is one that applies to all three of the novels in the series. Though the novel ostensibly alternates POV from Amy to Elder, if it weren’t for the chapter headings, I’d have no idea who was speaking. There’s just not enough difference in the “voice” of the two characters, which has lead to confusion more than once on my part.Lucky for the series, the other strengths more than make up for this weakness.Will probably mostly appeal to girls in their early to middle teens, though the alternating viewpoint between male and female protagonists may help draw in male readers.
    • 2/5
      Oh dear lord how the mighty have fallen.In summation, from Amy's point of view:I love rain!Boys are cute!Daddy mean!Gee whiz I don't want to commit genocide, but they hurt my mommy!Whoopsie! I think I just started an interplanetary war!Yay my hot boyfriend survived!
    • 5/5
      I started reading this series because it was a book club pick. Sometimes those are hit or miss for me. This is a definite hit for me. The story was good, the characters were well done and the world building was fabulous. All the necessary ingredients for a wonderful reading experience.I hated to see the series end. That is always when I know the book(s) are really good and I thought this last book was a great way to wrap up the story. What a great adventure.
    • 5/5
      I'm so sad that I just finished these books but they are so good.
    • 4/5
      I end this series with so many questions, and SO many answers.There is joy when Godspeed lands on Centauri-Earth and Amy wakes up her parents. There is fear when they discover that the planet has already been inhabited – by humans, and that they are being hunted by dinosaur like creatures. There is grace in the moments of intimacy between Elder and and Amy. There is anger and rage when Amy discovers once again that people are keeping secrets.Amy, blessed Amy. She shows so much courage, strength and determination throughout this novel and this series. She is intelligent and gutsy, unwilling to let anyone discourage her from doing what is right – protecting innocent lives. She does not sit in silence as she watches her father make fatal mistakes, that end up killing hundreds. At times, she may trust to easily, but if there is any flaw to have I think that is the most beautiful one. Just as she does not view the citizens of Godspeed as less than human, she does not view the Hybrids of Centauri-Earth as something to be feared. While Elder and her father are quick to anger and swift to retaliate, Amy is the voice of reason.This final installment is an intense commentary on slavery, greed and military involvement. It certainly makes you question why it seems to be part of the human condition to need to have control over each other, and control over what we do not understand. If our future was the one that Revis created, would we support that? Controlling people with drugs in order to make them mindless slaves, meant to create weapons? If the world’s leaders had access to a drug like Phydus, would they use it? I think the answer is they absolutely would. Without thinking or considering the consequences. How far off is that reality? History is bound to repeat itself, or so that saying goes, does that mean that a new kind of slavery or rebellion is in our future? Sure, it may be hundreds or even thousands of years for now, but still…is that the legacy we want to leave?Series Review: I was unsure about taking the series on at first. Sci-fi has never really been my thing, but I had been seeing so much about it that I decided to give it a try. Though the first book had it’s issues, the series does improve with each book. It’s so awesome when you can see the author evolving with their characters through each installment. The little things that I found annoying in Across the Universe faded into the background as the characters became more and more compelling and the stakes grew higher and higher. Though in the end I am still left with questions and wish Revis could keep telling Amy’s story for 3 more books, I understand her need to end it where she did. This series went SO much further than I thought it would at first glance, and I am glad I gave it a chance.
    • 5/5
      This one is my favorite in the trilogy. It had me on the edge of my seat. A lot of the time I felt like how I used to when I watched the hubby play Halo. It's such a new and different world, and had the same effect on me.

      In the previous books, I always preferred Amy's character over Elder's. However, in this installment I have to say that Elder was my favorite character. He showed leadership, and was able to make difficult decisions. He stayed strong for his people, and Amy, throughout the book, even in the scariest situations. Amy comes across as incredibly whiny. She does what's she told, and doesn't put up a fight like she did in the previous novels. I just feel like she was deflated, and all of her convictions kind of went out the window once they arrived on the planet.

      The plot is AMAZING!!! It moves along seamlessly. You are kept wondering what is on the planet for a long time. There are so many twists and turns that you don't know what to believe. The events that take place are unbelievable. And you start thinking about what could happen in the same circumstances.

      Shades of Earth, is an epic final book. There's mystery, suspense, action, and of course romance. Both Amy and Elder are pushed to the limits in order to discover the truth about this new planet.
    • 3/5
      It's pretty standard of the YA dystopian trilogy with a few exceptions 1) it's a space opera where a ship has left Earth to colonize a new planet, 2) the main boy and girl characters are treated pretty equally, since there are alternating chapters of their POV, 3) the adults don't automatically follow the teenagers' lead, 4) it's a bit darker than most of the genre with more known characters' deaths (but not GoT levels), and 5) the romance plot is not as central but more satisfying than the one in the Hunger Games.
    • 4/5
      Elder and Amy are in the bridge of the shuttle at the bottom of Goodspeed with 2/3 of the crew tethered in the other part of it. Should they press the button to land where monsters and other terrors like, or should they stay and fight to restore peace and tranquility aboard what may be a dying ship?

      The shuttle lands after some disruption, only to be terrorized by giant flying creatures. The crew from earth, including Any's parents, are thawed and brought back. After the murder of the first two people in the chain of command, Amy's father is now in charge of the crew from earth. He and Elder vie for distribution of power. Not knowing anything about what happened aboard Goodspeed while frozen, Commander Martin has a difficult time comprehending why a teenage boy is the understood leader of the shipborn.

      Danger lurks both within and without of the shuttle, but they have to leave the ship to avoid being locked in without enough food or water if there is danger that causes the ship to close up. Crew members begin to die from various causes, including what become obvious attacks on them by unknown animals and even sapient beings. It also becomes obvious that some people are lying to others, including Commander Martin, and it appears that there has been contact from earth before these people, some frozen for about 500 years instead of the original 300, arrived as space travel advanced on Sol-Earth.

      Another page-turner, and one worth reading until the end.
    • 3/5
      A mostly satisfying conclusion to the Across the Universe series. The ending was cheesy, but I liked it. Don't judge me for liking a happy ending the best.

      Amy, Elder, and half of the population have left Godspeed to form a new colony on Centauri-Earth. The new planet is dangerous and isn't the world Amy hoped it would be, even with her parents unthawed along with the rest of the team from Earth. And quickly find they aren't alone and must pull together, shipbornes and earthbornes, to survive.

      The dynamics of the series change with the new setting. We get far less of Elder and more about Amy, her relationship with her parents, and her survival on the planet. Even Elder's thoughts were mostly about her. I felt book 2 was more of a focus on Elder, and this book evens things out by having more of a focus on Amy. The one thing I would have liked was a epilogue set in the future to let us know how the colony survived, because I like to tie a bow on things.

      I'm glad I checked out this series from the library without knowing anything about it. It is a good addition to the ever-growing young adult dystopian fiction world with the added bonus of being set in space. 3 stars.
    • 4/5
      It was great, but it could have been better. There were many twists that I didn't expect, but some of the explanations just weren't enough for me. I felt like we should have ended with book two, but it wasn't tied in a neat bow so the story had to go on. I'm not saying that she didn't do a great job, but I would have liked the story to be a little different. I would have liked to have a bit more character development too. The world building is not as phenomenal in this book as the previous two.
    • 4/5
      That was just one of the most amazing series I have read so far !
      I'm so glad I read this for booktubeathon :D
    • 4/5
      I felt this was the strongest of the trilogy. So nice to wrap it up in a great way.
    • 5/5
      Pre-reading:

      I can't frexing wait for this to come out. Oh my. Can the time be fast-forwarded? Okay. Is that even a word? Anyway, please. please. Don't prolong the agony. Fire Away. I'm so much excited for this.

      02/05/14

      Wow. Can I give this book a hundred stars? No. Maybe not. Because I think that this book deserves even more.

      When I started reading this, I didn't think that I'm signing up for a book that will do all those crazy things to my heart. I felt everything. I felt their pain, loss, suffering, fear, and desperation. I cried, even. There's actually goosebumps everywhere. I ship Amy and Elder together.

      Elder is a great male lead actually. He isn't that devastatingly, drop-dead gorgeous that we are kind of used to but you'll love him.

      The ending was how I expected it to be. I admit it's a bit cheesy but I don't really care. I was so devastated when the explosion happen. I am so happy at the end.

      I love this series. I really hate saying goodbye to a series I learned to love. I recommend it to everyone. READ THIS. READ THIS. READ THIS.
    • 3/5
      Nice ending, just such a shame the first book in the serie's was so slow.
    • 2/5
      DNF

      I'm not even gonna bother to write a full and thorough review. Either I am just not in the mood for this book, or this book is actually as bad as I believe it to be, but either way, I'll probably attempt to finish this when I have absolutely no books to read and I have nothing better to do.

      Although I was crazy about the first one and second book, this book did not satify me. It draaaaaaaged to the point of utmost boredom, and I was making excuses just so I would not read this book. I mean, when I would rather do my homework than read this book, that's a pretty bad sign in and of itself.

      Amy was a pain in the ass. I disliked her very much. But I liked Elder, who seemed to be the only one that actually had a brain.

      Summary: NO ME GUSTA.
    • 2/5
      "Elder is a teenage boy. He doesn't hate anything with breasts."
      ~Colonel Robert Martin

      (My opinion the best line EVER to explain the Elder/Amy relationship.)

      Shades of Earth is the final part in the Across the Universe trilogy. It's a simple tale: Half of the people on Godspeed, Amy and Elder included, have landed on Centauri Earth. But their new home world isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are huge and predatory pterotactyls that will attack quickly, beautiful purple moss that, when it rains, bloom into a flower that releases a powerful neurotoxin and aliens that have solar powered indestructible glass that can be manipulated into weapons.

      Not to mention, food is getting scarce, the distrust between the Sol Earth personnel and the Godspeed crew grows, and a wrench, by the name of Chris Smith, disrupts the tenuous relationship between Elder and Amy. And, it looks like Orion might just have one more clue to help the inhabitants of Centauri Earth to make it home.

      Oh, how I didn't really like this book. I mean, a lot more characters died in Shades but they didn't really matter. They seem to be a waste of space and not really integral to the plot or else why would Revis have killed them in one foul swoop? Amy Martin is not a good character at all. She was very whiny and, as much as Revis try to make her a capable leader, I didn't buy.

      SPOILER ALERT:
      Honestly, she should have died when she became a hybrid. At first, she didn't want the biological weapon to detonate and kill the hybrids. Then when the s...t hit the fan, she was all for that weapon...until she was injected with hybrid formula. Then, it was like oh wait, don't. I don't want to die.

      Really? A few seconds ago you were okay with killing a few hundred hybrids to save your people....

      Until you became one of the few hundred hybrids and your people didn't matter...

      Elder was his petulant and scowling self but he has always been able to see the bigger picture and actually will do anything to save his people.

      ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT:
      I hated Elder's death fake-out!!!!! If Revis is going to have the ending of her book be so happy with the peace agreement, there needs to be powerful loss that is going to resonate and generate sympathy for Amy. Elder's death would have mattered like that since he was the only person she cared about it. I mean, she lost her parents to very violent deaths but none of that matter except Elder. Then Revis revealed him to be alive at the end and sappiness prevailed.

      I felt like this whole series could have been better. Oh well, at least I enjoyed one third of the trilogy.
    • 4/5
      This was an excellent conclusion to an an absolutely spectacular young adult science fiction series. I really enjoyed this conclusion and this series as a whole.Amy and Elder are finally leading those people willing to leave the Godspeed to their new home planet. The threat of exactly what type of monster the leaders of Godspeed were staying on Godspeed to avoid hangs over those traveling to the new planet. Added to that threat is the threat of those who have been frozen on Godspeed. When they land on the new planet it’s time to unfreeze all the people who have been sleeping for hundreds of years and that brings threats and complications of its own.This is an exciting book because we finally get to see this new and awesome planet with our own eyes. However some of that wonder is crushed by all the problems the ex-Godspeed inhabitants end up facing.It was fun to get to meet and know Amy’s parents; they are unfrozen shortly after landing. As expected there are issues between the Godspeed residents, who are genetically engineering to all look the same, and the original Earth inhabitants. The original Earth residents don’t feel like the Godspeed residents are real people. Because of these issues the group ends up somewhat torn between two factions. The Godspeed residents who are lead by Elder and the Earth residents who are lead by Amy’s father. As you can imagine the above puts a lot of stress on Amy and Elder’s relationship. To add to this is the introduction of another character named Chris, who is a solider that it Amy’s age. Chris is somewhat infatuated with Amy and is causing more tension between Amy and Elder.Most of the story is a thiller/mystery. The characters are desperately trying to unravel the mysteries of this new planet, while dodging dangers both unknown and unseen.The only thing I found disappointing about this story was the predictability. The first two novels in this series just floored me with some of the twists and turns. This novel wasn’t like that. Chris has a big secret which I figured out pretty much right away. The mystery of who/what the threat on this new planet is was also very easy to predict. So while this was a very entertaining and engaging read; it wasn’t as awe-inspiring as the first two books in the series.I also felt like things were a bit rushed at the end. I would have liked a little bit more closure and maybe a glimpse into the future to see how events played out.Overall this was an awesome and engaging young adult science fiction novel. I really really loved the first two books in this series and I did think this book was more predictable and less gripping than the first two books. I also thought the ending was a bit rushed. However, despite that this was still an incredibly engaging story with awesome characters. I really loved it and would recommend to science fiction fans.
    • 5/5
      I've loved all three books in the series, but this was the icing on the cake. The tension and conflict between the frozens and Elder's people was pretty much what I expected, but I still loved how well Revis wrote Amy into the middle of it all. There are some wonderful twists and turns, some that I NEVER saw coming and they were awesome!

      Revis does a wonderful job building a new world and sharing the wonder with us. I read this the same time my daughter did and we kept trying to guess what would happen and who the bad guys really were. It was fun to do together. I also liked the way Revis kept with the "solve the puzzle" theme from the first two books. Before starting I thought that would be finished, but no! Love it!

      In the end, all the loose ends are tied up, questions answered, and after several chapters of sitting on the edge of my couch that wonderfully satisfying resolution.
    • 4/5
      A really strong ending to a really strong series. If you've got teens who are getting tired of weak heroines, this series is for them.
    • 3/5
      3/5

      Interesting thing about this series. I wasn't crazy about the first book and then I really liked the second one. Shades of Earth was in the middle.

      I loved the planet Beth Revis created, but it didn't develop enough for me. I think it's a great story but it did not connect with me in the end.
    • 5/5
      A perfect end to a perfect series. So many feelings.
    • 3/5
      This book and I had issues. It did the same thing as the last two, which is that it started out again with a whole new situation and a brand new form of political distress it had to ride ragged through. I am fan of colonizing alien world Sci-fi's so the tropes that came along with this one actually didn't bother me all that much. I can report that my thoughts about Amy going Frankenstein at the end of Book Two, came back to Amy acting more like herself in Book Three.

      I actually stand behind understanding the entire Military vs. Civilian thing they showed us, and these types of things show over and over and over, again.




      What makes this a hard decision between two and three stars for me is actually the last ten percent of the book.

      The last ten percent of the book is so drastically big I don't understand why it happened in so few pages. Three different groups are brought together. A terrible thing is done to Amy. Several epic losses are taken in the kind of stride you can save for when you're alone. And the world's newest issues with FRX and "The Aliens" is solved in less than half the time we spent figuring out they were there.

      I just don't have the words. I wanted so much more out of this ending than I got from it, that all I can do is keep staring at it and wishing it would happen. Wanting to know what happens after this. To those people. To this world. To the next setup. I'm just seriously at such a loss at the end of this one.

    • 4/5
      The third book in this series definitely clinched my love for Revis and her sci fi writing. It is a mystery and sci fi thriller, and it's well-paced and well-written. While I, as always, can do without the romances between Amy and Elder, the relationships between all of the other characters is spot-on. Such a great ending to a great trilogy! Bring on the inter-galactic war!
    • 4/5
      Summary: Elder and Amy have finally made the decision to leave the damaged spaceship Godspeed behind, and attempt a life on the planet Centauri Earth, the destination of the ship's centuries-long voyage. They know it's a one-way trip, but Amy believes that anything has to be better than the claustrophobia of living on Godspeed for the rest of her life. Plus, once they land on Centauri Earth, she can revive her parents, and the rest of the cryogenically frozen crew. But things don't go at all as Amy and Elder had planned. Centauri earth is full of terrifying pterodactyl-like monsters, poisonous plants. The shippers are terrified of their first taste of life without walls. Supplies are missing or running low. The military personnel - including, heartbreakingly, Amy's father - take immediate command, and refuse to take Elder seriously as a leader. And worst of all is the fact that they might not be alone on their new planet...Review: This book is substantially different from the previous two in the series in terms of plot, but they're all three very, very similar in how fast-paced and crazily addictively readable they are. Seriously, they're such quick reads, but they're hugely enjoyable, and actually have some meat to them as well. They're a great blend of action and mystery and romance, all told in quick alternating chapters from the POV of the two leads, and they are so easy to get sucked into.So, Revis is obviously skilled at pacing. She's also got a very deft hand with worldbuilding, and that remains true even once the characters are off the Godspeed. Centauri Earth is described pretty vividly, and incorporates a lot of really neat elements that I think Revis makes work as part of a cohesive whole. And it may be a matter of the various new elements added in to this book, or she may have gotten more subtle in her plotting, but I thought the mystery element worked a lot better in this book than in previous ones. In the first two books of the series, I had most of the solution pretty well mapped out well ahead of the characters (Didn't stop me from totally devouring the books, though), but in Shades of Earth, while I figured out some pieces pretty easily, the whole picture of what was really going on remained mysterious until nearly the end. Really, the thing that bugged me about this book was how... not passive, exactly, but how acquiescent Amy was about everything, even when her parents were being total dicks. I totally understand that she was happy to see them unfrozen again after everything and didn't want to stir up trouble, and her dad was obviously not the easiest person to talk to, but the fact that she had such a hard time about speaking up about anything, at all, even when it was direly important, seemed not entirely in keeping with her character as written. But regardless, this was a great - and unpredictable - end to a very enjoyable series. 4 out of 5 stars.Recommendation: These books don't recap much previous action, so the series needs to be read as a whole. But anyone who likes fast-paced and fun YA sci-fi should have a blast with it.
    • 4/5
      No stand alone , concludes a trilogy