≫ Download Glow Book One of the Sky Chasers Amy Kathleen Ryan Books

Glow Book One of the Sky Chasers Amy Kathleen Ryan Books

Download As PDF : Glow Book One of the Sky Chasers Amy Kathleen Ryan Books

Glow Book One of the Sky Chasers Amy Kathleen Ryan Books

This book is a nice science fiction story with enough excitement to make you anxious to continue reading, but with enough character development and thoughtful moral ambiguity to appeal to the cerebral side of any enthusiast of the genre.

I don't want to say too much, but the novel has charismatic young leads that remind me of the young main characters of the Hunger Games. Also, the ethical meat of the story gives the entire work the feel of the older science fiction writers (Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut [think Harrison Bergeron], etc.).

I rarely say this, but it would be great if they made a movie out of this story as long as they kept the intellectual material and didn't sacrifice it to give more screen time to over-the-top special effects.


Tags : Amazon.com: Glow: Book One of the Sky Chasers (9780312590567): Amy Kathleen Ryan: Books,Amy Kathleen Ryan,Glow: Book One of the Sky Chasers,St. Martin's Griffin,0312590563,Romance - General,Science Fiction - General,Science fiction.,Action & Adventure General,Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9),Fiction-Science Fiction,Girls & Women,JUVENILE,Juvenile Fiction,Juvenile Grades 7-9 Ages 12-14,Love & Romance,Science Fiction Fantasy (Young Adult),Science fiction,Science fiction (Children's Teenage),TEEN'S FICTION SCIENCE FICTION,United States,YOUNG ADULT FICTION,YOUNG ADULT FICTION Romance General,Young Adult Fiction Science Fiction General,Young Adult FictionAction & Adventure - General,Young Adult FictionGirls & Women,Young adult space opera series; teen space opera series; ya space opera series; Young adult science fiction series; teen science fiction series; ya science fiction series; ya sci fi series; teen sci fi series; young adult scifi series; Young adult science fiction action adventure; teen science fiction adventure; ya sci fi action book; teen space opera romance; young adult space opera romance; ya space opera romance; teen science fiction romance,Action & Adventure General,Girls & Women,Love & Romance,YOUNG ADULT FICTION Romance General,Young Adult Fiction Science Fiction General,Young Adult FictionAction & Adventure - General,Young Adult FictionGirls & Women,Science Fiction Fantasy (Young Adult),Science fiction,YOUNG ADULT FICTION,Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9),Science fiction (Children's Teenage)

Glow Book One of the Sky Chasers Amy Kathleen Ryan Books Reviews

Katie's Thoughts

I think the biggest thing I liked about Glow is that it felt truly original. I have not read anything else like it, nor have I read anything with a story slightly like it. It kept me on my toes because I had no idea what to expect.

I really liked this book, and when I run into other people who have read it, the consensus seems to be either you love it or you don’t, but I definitely loved it. I don’t think the summary really does this book justice, because I think this story is so much deeper than what it seems to be. When I first started to read Glow, I admit I was very cautious because the way it started I almost felt as if it had a religious agenda. After I got into it a bit I was glad to see that, that was not the case.

So earth is uninhabitable, and whoever is left on earth sent out two giant space ships (years apart) to go to “new earth, which will take them 40 something years to reach.

These spaceships are HUGE, like the Noah’s Arc of space ships! They have animals, farms, habitats with multiple ecosystems,…I am talking huge! The first spaceship is the more “religious” spaceship, and their leader is a Pastor, and our second spaceship is the one our main character Waverly is on. Its not that they are atheist, they just aren’t religion driven / based. Their leader is a captain. (I’m sure you can see now why I thought that they were either going to make the religious people or our agnostic people “the bad guys”.. but it really didn’t work out that way. So to make a long story short, and trying not to give too much away, there was a problem with conceiving children in space. A problem that our spaceship solved, and the other didn’t, needless to say, the other spaceship was not happy. They slowed down and caught up with us, attacked and kidnapped our girls…. I don’t want to give too much away but what they did with them, I guarantee you would not guess!

You will have to read Glow to see what happened to the girls. Will they be able to escape and get back to their loved one on their spaceship?

Krisha’s Thoughts
I got my hands on this book just a few days before Katie. I soooo remember calling up Katie about halfway through and saying that it had just turned crazy and it was a book about God and Jesus in disguise. I felt like I had been duped! I'm okay with books with religious context but like to know it before I start reading. I did jump to some conclusions and the book did take a direction that I wasn't expecting.

I am in the "love" category on this one. I like that they are in outer space on a ship which poses problems and issues all on it's own. This book seems to be the beginning of a love-triangle type conflict. But unlike Bella from Twilight, Waverly is a tough girl. She is the oldest female child on the ship (15 years old). I just could not even possibly imagine being in her shoes and everything she goes through.

I like that the POV changes between chapters and we the opportunity to see events that could have been missed from a one-character POV.
There are 2 more books in this series. I'm hooked.
Glow (don't let the cutesy name fool you, there's craziness to go around in this book) starts with Kieran and Waverly, two teenagers aboard the spaceship called Empyrean, whose mission is to traverse space to New Earth from the old, dying Earth they left behind. Whilst crossing a nebula, however, they're attacked by the other ship that left Earth a year before them, the New Horizon. They kidnap all the young girls, including Waverly, and kill some people in the process. It falls to Kieran and to Waverly to fix the whole situation, kilometers away from each other in deep space.

That synopsis up there makes no justice to this book. Really, the story is so engrossing and the characters so interesting there's never a moment of boredom. You think you know who the bad guys are, how it's going to end, what's going to happen, but turns out you're wrong. It's not that there were twists, properly speaking. I don't know, some people may think of the shifts in the plot as twists, but they were so subtle and fluid I just saw them as the new destination the narrative was taking.

I think you can safely say that a book is well written when you hate the characters the writer meant for you to hate, feel for the ones the writer wants you to feel for and when the plot is so intense you're capable of being enthralled even when nothing action-y is happening. This is the case here, only there's a catch when it comes to knowing which character to suspect you can't know for sure. Some characters go through life changing ordeals throughout the book that changes their outlook on life, and that also changes their attitude and the way you think of them.

Also, I thought it was really interesting how Amy Ryan approached the subject of a self proclaimed messiah. Such character wasn't some religious bigot before, nor did he think he had insight into God's mind, but after spending a month starving, the voice he heard in his head, the one that at first was his parents telling him it'd be ok, then was his girlfriend's telling him she'd join him again turned into a faceless voice. A voice that told him he'd be ok, that promised him freedom and everything he wanted. Surely, then, it must've been the voice of God. Except wasn't it just a voice in his head caused by prolonged starvation? I think this was a genius approach to the matter, and although I won't comment further so as to not cause any religious debate, let's just say I agree fully with this book.

Anyway, no matter what you take away from this review, bottom line is pick this book up now and read it. Seriously. You're going to love it.
This book is a nice science fiction story with enough excitement to make you anxious to continue reading, but with enough character development and thoughtful moral ambiguity to appeal to the cerebral side of any enthusiast of the genre.

I don't want to say too much, but the novel has charismatic young leads that remind me of the young main characters of the Hunger Games. Also, the ethical meat of the story gives the entire work the feel of the older science fiction writers (Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut [think Harrison Bergeron], etc.).

I rarely say this, but it would be great if they made a movie out of this story as long as they kept the intellectual material and didn't sacrifice it to give more screen time to over-the-top special effects.