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Book: Glow Book 1, Potency

Author: Aubrey Hadley

Book Series: Glow Book 1

Rating: 1/5

Publication Date: June 16, 2020

Genre: YA Sci-Fi

Recommended Age: can’t recommend, DNF-ed

Publisher: Ruby & Topaz Publishing

Pages: 420

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Synopsis: The Sleeping Syndrome has returned after a six-month hiatus. This time, it’s popped up in New York, and it’s wiped out an entire homeless shelter. The same night of the outbreak — thousands of miles away — Harper, a seventeen-year-old girl, finds herself face-to-face with a glowing figure in the desert outskirts of her neighborhood.

As the world goes on high-alert from the Syndrome, Harper is kidnapped and taken to the Base of Ki, a massive dome with a sheening white city and fantastic technology … built by beings from another solar system.

There, she must form cross-species alliances to save her friends, family, and the human race before she loses all chance of returning to Earth.

Review: I had to DNF this one. These books is a good example of show and not tell, which is something you shouldn’t do in writing. There was so much that was not going on, that was just being told to me, and not being shown to me. The book was also very boring after Harper got picked up by the aliens and all of my willingness to read it left my body. The book was horribly slow paced and the characters didn’t make sense after awhile. It had a LOT of promise, so idk what happened after the first 100 pages, but I didn’t make it much longer than that. Also, I thought this book already came out but now it’s saying June 16, 2020 so maybe it’ll get better.

Verdict: Not recommend. Needs to be re-editted.