Glow is the story of Waverly. Waverly is the oldest girl in
her generation, the first generation of children to be born on board the
Empyrean, after a bout of infertility. Their ship and another just like it, the
New Horizon, have left Earth for a new planet the believe they can colonize
after Earth’s resources start running out and it becomes an unbearable place to
live. However something goes wrong.
In the heart of a
nebula New Horizon, which should be so far ahead of the Empyrean that they can’t
see it, has slowed down enough so that they are almost side along with Waverly’s
ship. Crew members from the New Horizon board the Empyrean and quickly
everything goes down hill. The girls are taken from their homes, most of the
adults are killed, the Empyrean is sabotaged and the boys are left to cope by
themselves without a clue. Amidst chaos and fear Waverly must learn that power
corrupts, everyone has secrets and but most importantly; how to find a way back home
Today I thought I’d write a review for Glow. Both from the
cover and the genre of this book I thought it would be painfully like Across
the Universe, which I did not like, and so I was incredibly apprehensive about
reading this at first. In fact I didn’t even bother to check out the
description, so turned off by the idea it might compare to a book that had disappointed me as much as Across the Universe had done.
