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Pages: 307
Publisher:
St. Martin’s Press
Series: Sky
Chasers book 1
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Out in the murky nebula lurks an unseen enemy: the New Horizon. On its way to populate a distant planet in the wake of Earth's collapse, the ship's crew has been unable to conceive a generation to continue its mission. They need young girls desperately, or their zealous leader's efforts will fail. Onboard their sister ship, the Empyrean, the unsuspecting families don't know an attack is being mounted that could claim the most important among them...
Fifteen-year-old Waverly is part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space; she was born on the Empyrean, and the large farming vessel is all she knows. Her concerns are those of any teenager—until Kieran Alden proposes to her. The handsome captain-to-be has everything Waverly could ever want in a husband, and with the pressure to start having children, everyone is sure he's the best choice. Except for Waverly, who wants more from life than marriage—and is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.
But when the Empyrean faces sudden attack by their assumed allies, they quickly find out that the enemies aren't all from the outside
Review:
I must admit
that I was kind of hesitant to read Glow
and I kept putting it off because I had read some reviews comparing this book
to Across the Universe, which I had
read last year and I thought it was ok but just not for me. But I also heard a lot of amazing things
about this book so I decided to give it a chance and I’m really glad that I did,
this book is wonderful.
In Glow we follow fifteen year old Waverly,
who has lived her entire life aboard ‘The Empyrean’, a ship that’s en route to
a destination in which they call ‘New Earth’.
The first years on the ship were hard, there was infertility in the
women and no one was able to conceive.
Scientists aboard the ship corrected the problem and a new generation
was born, but in order for the mission to continue, the young generation has to
marry and have kids as soon as they are old enough, which in this world are mid
teens and it seems like everyone expects Waverly to marry Kieran, the handsome
captain-to-be. Everyone except Waverly.
When the ship
that was dispatched a year ahead of them, the New Horizon makes itself known, everything
changes. The women aboard the New
Horizon can’t get pregnant and in order to not go extinct, they need help from the
Empyrean. But it’s not the kind of help
the Captain will allow, so they take matters into their own hands.
Waverly is a great
leader and she really gets put to the test in this book. When things go wrong she really steps up to
the plate and tries to make things right, even when they seem impossible. She also realizes that not everything on her
ship was perfect. Kieran is smart and
tough, and even though he was preparing to be the captain he didn’t expect it
to happen this soon. I’m still not sure
what to think about Seth, sometimes I liked him and sometimes I didn’t, maybe
I’ll make up my mind about him in the next book.
Glow is an
exciting and gripping read that you will not want to put down. Ms. Ryan’s writing is flawless and I look
forward to seeing what happens in the next book.
Quotes:
‘My mind wants something trivial,
he told himself. I don’t want to think
about what’s happening in reality. I’d
rather invent petty little love triangles’
“You’ll regret this,” Waverly
told Mather, her voice trembling. “I’m
going to make you suffer.”
Rating:
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