This was a difficult book for me to rate. Glow was pretty high up on my 'most anticipated list' of 2011, next to Divergent, Wither and The Iron Knight. But I can't love it liked I hoped I would. 
 What I liked: 
 - Glow starts off rather well, with enough action to snag my attention and keep it. I always appreciate it when a book has a good beginning. 
 - This is a pretty dark book, for the most part. There is killing, imprisonment, etc. etc. I thought the author did a good job with keeping a sense of foreboding throughout, which always makes me wonder what will happen next. And subjects such as religion and power were handled well. 
 - Not once while I was reading did I feel like Glow was a copy of Across the Universe, like I suspected it might be before I began. 
 - Waverly was intelligent and strong. She kept her eyes on the prize, and was always working toward her goal. This makes me respect her as a heroine. 
 - The main villian of the story was quite sinister. My favorite type of villian are the ones who appear civil and nice on the outside, but are really insane nutcases. 
 What I Didn't Like: 
 - Towards the beginning of the book, there is a scene where an alarm goes off and all available hands have to report to the starboard shuttle bay. So two parents ask Waverly to round up all the children and take them to the auditorium, and then to go get their child - Serafina - from their apartment/quarters, because she is deaf and can't hear the announement. So when Waverly goes to get her, she discovers that the door to the apartment is locked, so she has to pick it. Why is the deaf four year old in the apartment alone where she very well could lock herself in? Why isn't there a babysitter? WHY?! 
 - Glow is divided into parts, which switches back and forth from Kieran's to Waverly's point of view. The thing was, I found Waverly's parts suspenseful and interesting. Kieran's were much harder to get into, partly because of all the mechanical/ship repair stuff they had to do. But also because I had a hard time connecting with him as a character. I wish this novel had been written in 1st person instead of 3rd. 
 - There is a part in Glow in which Waverly and another girl talk to each other with coded poems. Now, I understand that they could get away with that a few times. But after a few weeks or so, you'd think at least one of the guards would have been suspicious, especially if Waverly and the other girl kept saying how "every OTHER line was torture". 
 - I really felt how Kieran loved Waverly and wanted to be with her, but I didn't get that feeling from her so much. Especially when she got back and got on his case about the sermons. I realize that she'd had a somewhat scarring experiance with religion, but I feel like she she should have tried harder to understand that they were the only thing at the time giving people aboard the Empyrean hope. Waverly jumped to conclusions about him a bit too quickly, making me wonder if she really did love Kieran (especially after how much she 'noticed' Seth in the beginning of the novel). 
 - I see a love triangle in the future, and I'm hating it. 
 - After the adults and girls were gone and there were only the boys to run the ship, Seth acted like Kieran was just some random dude who suddenly decided he was going to start telling everyone what to do. But it says that Kieran was the Captain's favorite, and probably going to be his successor. So when the Captain died, it only made sense for Kieran to take over. I don't know if the author wants people to like Seth, but I really don't. 
 - The ending left us with a lot of unanswered questions. 
 Overall: Glow is interesting enough for me to continue on in the series, but it's not high on my list of priorities.