Like so many books for young adults recently,  Glow has a strong female lead who grows up destined to marry the boy next door but through circumstance and trial acmes to realize it is really the shunned boy who everyone dismissed that is her true love. Unlike so many books in this sub-genre Glow takes place in a post apocalyptic universe, aboard a ship carrying the last remnants of the human race. Also unlike some of the other books this book's evil wears the guise of religion. A deal breaker for me. Glow By Amy Kathleen Ryan Read by Ilyana Kadushan St. Martin's Griffin and Macmillan Audio September 2011 As humanity used up the final resources of earth and its home became unliveable two Noah's Ark like space ships were launched about a decade apart to search for a habitable world to colonize. Flash forward 43 years and we find on the second of these ships, the Empyrean, our heroine Waverly. She is a free thinking atheist living on the Empyrean because the non-religious people were segregated on the Empyrean so that the two ships would have an internal unity of belief systems. She is dating the heir apparent to the captaincy, Kieran, a nearly perfect young man whose only downside is that he is a person of faith. When New Horizon is spotted nearby an alarm is sounded amongst the people living in the Empyrean. The first ship would have had to start slowing down years ago to rendezvous with the second - if the slow down was on purpose. Purpose is quickly revealed when the second ship sends an attack shuttle over to kidnap all the female children, including Waverly. It isn't a clean kidnapping though as the kidnappers choose to vent a shuttle bay mercilessly killing hundreds of peaceful parents and farmers, then shoot dozens more in their escape, and finally detonate an explosive on the ship's cooling system causing a massive overheating of the drive and a release of radiation with the intent of killing the rest of the inhabitants of the Empyrean. In all, a couple hundred female children were stolen from their peaceful parents and home and thousands were massacred. Who would do such a thing? Apparently people of faith. It's sheer anti-religious bigotry to presuppose that people of faith would do someting like this. To often authors, producers and directors of books, TV and film take the easy way out of bashing Christian believers instead of creating realistic and fully realized bad guys. Could a bad guy be religious? Sure. Historically evil people did claim to be religious frequently, although not as frequently as evildoers who were non-religious, and almost never has there actually been an evildoers who was really a follower of Jesus Christ as portrayed in the Bible.  Furthermore, the reason why the religious aboard the New Horizon turned evil doesn't make sense logically. Is it really likely that an obviously highly intellegent group of people chosen by the masters of Earth, from the entire population of Earth, to colonize the universe and save humanity from destruction would turn around and kill thousands for the last humans in existence? Wouldn't the best and the brightest -at the least level headed - people have been chosen? I guess the moral here is that religious people And while the author tries later in the book goes to great lengths to say that the evildoers' faith is not Christianity these statements fly in the face of facts. The only religion with pastors is Christianity. The main villian has a dove, the Christian sign for the Holy Spirit, above her desk. She also prays to her "lord" a term used by Christians and no other world faith. The bottom line is this: authors and entertainers should recognize that Christianity is not a safe religion to bash and think that they will still get their audience and sales. Three billion or more people profess to be Christian on the planet and our faith should be respected. You can say 'it's just a book's but it isn't. Every story has a message and this message in this story is wrong. If you want a good love triangle, young adult series set in a science fictional future then read Matched and Crossed by Allie Condie. Glow doesn't shine.