GLOW by Amy Kathleen Ryan takes us on an incredible voyage into the vast, emptiness of space. With the overpopulated Earth's resources stretched to the breaking point, these colonists have set out on an impossible journey to found a New Earth. Kieran and Waverly were born aboard the Empyrean. They have never known Earth. As the oldest, they are seen as the caretakers of the new generation. But when the New Horizon, their sister ship, pulls up alongside, the world as they have known it begins to crumble.
Taken prisoner aboard the New Horizon, Waverly faces dark challenges including having her eggs harvested, violence, threats, and the end of her freedom of choice. Survival may mean returning to the Empyrean, but even when she makes it, everything has changed.
GLOW is a dystopian novel which doesn't pull any punches, it's a hard, violent struggle to stay alive and stay free. But Kieran and Waverly's determination help them both to survive.
16 years ago, Waverly and Kieran were the first children
born in space. Now a perfect couple, they are the pride and
joy of the whole spaceship. They represent the future. The
ship is their entire world. They have never seen a stranger
before. Old Earth is crumbling, and the crew is hoping to
reach (and colonise) New Earth within fifty years. Along
with their allies on the second spaceship - who set off a
year before them and whom they have never met. One day,
Kieran proposes to Waverly. That same morning, the 'allies'
attack - and Kieran and Waverly are separated in the
cruellest way possible. Will they ever see each other again?
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