Gefährliche Lügen

Alright... this one is definitely somewhere around 1.5 stars. Still, I am reserving the worst rating for, well, worse books.

Glow is strange. On one hand it's got a very interesting premise while on the other the execution is lacking. Being written in 3rd person omniscient hurts the story, the characters, and pretty much everything.

The synopsis is also a big fat liar. This is pretty far away from a typical YA romance. Waverly and Kieran barely spend any time together and their “love” is a thing of necessity rather than actual mature feelings.

Then there is this huge thing with religion. I'm not a person of faith and vehemently oppose certain beliefs in specific aspects. Even to me this was just a tad too much. Pretty much every religious character is portrayed as an oddity. The antagonist and villain is a pastor for Pete's sake!

Why the author chose to be so one sided in her portrayal of faith, why she chose christianity as opposed to some sort of an invented belief system which would not feel out of place in a sci-fi setting, I do not know.

The ending was really good; I liked it a lot more than the rest of the book. I'll read Spark and Flame (books 2 and 3) this year too probably.