Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan.

The book is that I have read this month Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan. The story is about some people from Earth onboard a ship, Empyrean heading to New Earth.

On board, sixteen-year olds Waverly and Kieran are part of the first generation born in space. They are in love. They believe their future is written in the stars. They have never seen a stranger until the day they are wrenched apart and find themselves fighting for their lives. They lived a normal live with their families and friends.

I like the ending of this story because Kieran and Waverly had to stay strong and not give up hope to guide the younger ones through the entire time they were being held captives at the New Horizon. Although apart and both of them desperately needing the other, they still held on and continued fighting for their lives. After five months, when Kieran and the crew on finally heard Waverly’s voice on the intercom, they managed to reunited all the remaining Empyrean crew members. Although their parents couldn’t be rescued yet, they were still happy to have each other. I also like the part when Kieran had almost lost all hope from being starved and beaten by Seth, he found this little voice in his head that told him what to do. How he managed to get support from the younger boys by setting up services to God. The ironic part was when Waverly didn’t approve of Kieran’s services because of her trauma from Anne Mather. She was angry because she thought Kieran would become like her until she went to Seth. The story ended in a cliffhanger here.

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