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Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan

3 reviews

ahanenohi's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Glow is quite the fast paced book and I am definitely not kidding when I say that. In fact, I thought it kind of started too fast— we basically jump in directly to the Bad Situation without being given any reason to care about the characters just yet. If it weren’t for it’s status as the first book in it’s series being so prominently displayed on the cover, I may have thought I was reading a sequel.

So I didn’t exactly have the best first impression of the book but I decided to keep reading. Waverly and Kieran are decent characters. I never felt the need to cry out at them being Stupid and making the Wrong Decisions as I do in other fast-paced, thrilling media. In my opinion, however, Glow is very much a plot-driven story and as such, we don’t linger very long on their development as characters. Readers who need to feel connected to the protagonist may feel disappointed.

Overall, Glow was a great way to spend my afternoon and my desire to constantly know what would happen next had me reading it in one sitting! The story truly brings you into a world where humanity is struggling to survive and takes all of its hopes and flaws with it. 

(As such, I should probably mention that the topic of religion— especially its capacity to both raise morale in the hopeless and manipulate the helpless—is a major plot point in the story, one I personally enjoyed as a religious person myself but understandably, will turn off some readers who would find it a bit preachy.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault

tbs250's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, and Abortion

hissukissu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

The story was really flat and shallow. It was tense and handled many difficult aspects as losing someone, fertility and religion. However it felt very unrealistic even for scifi book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail