What if you were bound for a new world, about to pledge your life to someone you'd been promised to since birth, and one unexpected violent attack made survival—not love—the issue?
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.
Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I have been trying to gather my thoughts on this book. So it has been written over a few nights (not just one) so be warned when reading this review. It may not make any sense.
HOLY SHIT! No other words. This book was that amazing, this has got to be, hands down one of the best dystopia novels that I’ve read in ages. I’m still trying to gather my thoughts; I am just blown away by the amazingness of this book.
I actually put off reading this for a while. I mean I had it; I just wasn’t bothered to actually read it. But boy am I glad I finally picked it up and read it. I was captivated and interested right after I had finished the first chapter. I could not put it down. Scratch that. I did put it down, but only to stop and think about what was happening. It was that moving.
So, what was this book about? Glow is about two teenagers Waverly and Kieran, the book is told from both their points of view’s (third person direct) and the way it’s set out is original and really smart. Okay back on to what the book was actually about. Kieran proposes to Waverly but she says she’ll think about it, heres your cue Seth (is awesome), let me just say that this is not your average love triangle. Well they soon find out that another ship (one that left one year in advance) is infertile. So they basically ask Waverly and Kieran’s ship to mate with them. The ship says no. So they take all the girls (under 16) to their ship to take their eggs to have children so they don’t die out. Kieran and Waverly are trying to find a way to get back to each other and the stuff that happens in between – WOW! And I mean wow.
The Plot. This book has such an amazing concept and it has got to go down as one of the best dystopia novels I’ve read in ages. It was just wow. The stuff that happened left me speechless, disgusted, it even made me want to cry. It was that good. I seriously can’t find any flaws with the plot (you could probably rip this book apart if you wanted, but I loved it. It was amazing at it probably does have a few flaws. But I loved it anyway!)
The Writing. This book had me so emotionally involved that I felt physically sick sometimes when I was reading the book. I was just amazed. Sure a good plotline can give you that, but it’s the writing that really helps and really gets you to feel for the characters. And boy was I feeling for the characters, not all in a good way.
Onto the characters. The character development was really well done and not just the main characters, the side characters too. How they changed when the girls were taken. Amazing to see their reactions. The main guy Kieran got on my nerves a lot. But Seth being there made up for it. And in no way were any of these characters perfect (far from it in fact), but that’s what made them so amazing. I just loved reading about their lives their struggles, what was happening to them. I really started to care for almost all the characters. Now onto Waverly. She was a kick-ass heroine. I really liked her. She was strong/confident but not cocky/nice and she had a brain and what she does and how she reacted was what had me speechless during the book. She is such an amazing character that went through so much. She was just amazing; there are seriously no other words to describe her.
I recommend this to:
Dystopia Lovers
YA Romance Lovers
Sci-fi Lovers
Book Lovers.
EVERYONE! It was that good!
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Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out how he made the list.
Through Hannah and Clay’s dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.
From the Publisher (Penguin)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The back story: I have no idea why I bought this, I remember buying it at a 6 books for $50 sale and I needed one more book to make 6, I saw this one and I remember that it had been on my to-reads list for a while, so I thought “I’ll get to it eventually.” So, several weeks later I can’t sleep it’s around 11, I decide to read and I need to read something that will probably make me fall asleep, yep you heard me I was looking for a boring book. This book was not a boring book. I was up until 4 reading this and when my mum came in to check that I was sleeping (yeah, my parents still do that. I am probably the only teenager with a 10 o’clock bedtime), I read it under the sheets, using the light of my I-phone; I just couldn’t put it down. This morning I woke up (after I had finished it) and reached for the book, I realised that I had finished it. The book was over. I was suddenly really sad, I also had to pee. But after my feelings disappeared (I went to the toilet), I realised…I didn’t really realise anything, I went and had breakfast, then I went to Netflix and a bit of Scrubs, then vampire diaries. And now I am here writing the review. So onto the real review:
What the book was about: This book was about Hannah, she recently committed suicide, but before she died she recorded a bunch of tapes, she sent them to the 13 people that caused her to kill herself. The way she sent it is like chain mail, you read it then you pass it on to the next person mentioned in the tapes. The next person to receive the tapes is Clay, Clay listens to the tapes and throughout the night he well you know does stuff, I’m not going to say any more in case I ruin the book, but the beginning, the end and the middle, wow. Just wow. You have to read it to get why I said that.
Your thoughts: I’ve had a full day to decide what I’m going to say about the book and I want to say so many things and my brain can’t organise them, so I’m going to give dot points. Yep I’m going to give you my thoughts on the book in dot points.
• So, dot point 1: When I finished the book I was speechless, literally.
• The writing was amazing, it was exactly what a teenager would say (in my opinion) and I liked the format and how it was told from Clay’s point of view, but the book was also told from Hannah’s. That may not make sense, but the author pulled it off.
• The characters, there is so much that I can say here. Clay, I spent a lot of the book in suspense like you. Trying to figure out why Hannah died. Hannah, I have no idea what to say and because unlike a lot of the reviews I’ve read, I am not someone who has ever considered suicide, so I don’t know if that is what someone in your position would feel or if the author was just over-exaugurating. But for me it seemed real, and the book had me tearing up at parts.
• The book was beautiful.
• The plot was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. It was done amazingly and the concept, such a great idea and the author pulled it off.
Recommendations: I am super glad I read this and I recommend it to YA lovers and I know it sounds like something strange or just a general sob story. It’s not; it’s an amazing, beautiful story of a girl explaining why she killed herself. Personally, I would recommend this to everyone, because it grabs you off the first page and keeps you interested the whole way and isn’t that a good book?
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