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| Glow (Sky Chasers #1) by Amy Kathleen Ryan |
"If a violent battle destroyed the only world you’ve ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back…
The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. As members of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Earth. Waverly knows she must marry young in order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. But there’s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than marriage… and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.
Suddenly, Waverly’s dreams are interrupted by the inconceivable – a violent betrayal by the Empyrean's sister ship, the New Horizon. In one pivotal moment, Waverly and Kieran are separated, and find themselves at the helm of dangerous missions, where every move has potentially devastating consequences, and decisions of the heart may lead to disaster.
Pulse-pounding and addictive, Glow is the first novel in Amy Kathleen Ryan's riveting Sky Chasers series.”
The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. As members of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Earth. Waverly knows she must marry young in order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. But there’s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than marriage… and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.
Suddenly, Waverly’s dreams are interrupted by the inconceivable – a violent betrayal by the Empyrean's sister ship, the New Horizon. In one pivotal moment, Waverly and Kieran are separated, and find themselves at the helm of dangerous missions, where every move has potentially devastating consequences, and decisions of the heart may lead to disaster.
Pulse-pounding and addictive, Glow is the first novel in Amy Kathleen Ryan's riveting Sky Chasers series.”
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Glow takes readers the world of Waverly and Kieran. Both characters have lived their lives on a space ship called the Empyrean, which is set to course through outer space on its journey to the New Earth. Disaster strikes when the reach the nebula and a neighbouring ship called New Horizon sets out kidnapping the girls from the Empyrean. Kieran and Waverly are caught up in different problems; Kieran does his best take over the ship while the adults go after the girls, and Waverly, being the oldest among the kidnapped girls is determined to get them all back to the Empyrean. But are they strong enough to lead and make choices?
I felt cheated over reading Glow. I’ve seen a lot of great reviews from it that I already expected I would like this book. And the synopsis just made me want to read it so much more, even considered buying the second book along when I purchased it. Thank goodness I put that decision on hold.
WARNING: Spoilers up ahead!
