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I enjoyed this story alot more than the previous 2. I thought it was a good conclusion to the quartet.
For a long time I’ve wondered what happened to Jonas and the small boy he fled with in Lois Lowry’s brilliantly crafted, The Giver. I was thrilled to read the conclusion to this story. Lowry beautifully combines the stories from all three books, The Giver, Gathering Blue and The Messenger. In Son, we are transported back to the Community during the time when Jonas gets his assignment as the Receiver of Memories. We are introduced to Claire who gets her assignment as birthmother. She becomes preg
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This is a hard book to review. The Giver is one of my all-time favorite books, and I always found the ending a little dissatisfying. I liked Gathering Blue okay, and really liked Messenger, but neither book really answered any of my questions about what happened to Jonas and Gabe. Son neatly ties all the books together. I really enjoyed part 1, which happens in the community at the time Jonas is selected to be the Receiver. I was really hoping to find out what happened in the community after he
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Mixed feelings. I kept skipping paragraphs and pages as she trained to climb out, then climbed out. I loved the way it unified the previous three books. Having recently read The Giver with an 8th grade class, I was especially struck by the new perspective on Jonas's community. Jonas's father comes off as far more human in this one, which makes more sense, really. The community Water Claire washes up in was interesting in being so very much like a historic village instead of a futu ...more
Mixed feelings. I kept skipping paragraphs and pages as she trained to climb out, then climbed out. I loved the way it unified the previous three books. Having recently read The Giver with an 8th grade class, I was especially struck by the new perspective on Jonas's community. Jonas's father comes off as far more human in this one, which makes more sense, really. The community Water Claire washes up in was interesting in being so very much like a historic village instead of a futu ...more
I'm not gonna lie, I was disappointed in this one. Two stars from me, but my son loved it, so it gets an added star, especially since he was the targeted audience.
It started out good, but then it all kinda fell to pieces, and the ending? I should have known by the way Messenger had ended that this series was taking a turn in a strange direction.
If Lois Lowry was a painter, I would say that the Giver series started out as a beautiful painting done in her own style then at the end she couldn't f ...more
It started out good, but then it all kinda fell to pieces, and the ending? I should have known by the way Messenger had ended that this series was taking a turn in a strange direction.
If Lois Lowry was a painter, I would say that the Giver series started out as a beautiful painting done in her own style then at the end she couldn't f ...more
Sep 26, 2012
Carol Coutts
marked it as to-read
Jan 05, 2013
Leesa
marked it as to-read
Jan 28, 2013
Kathy
marked it as to-read
Oct 12, 2014
Megan
rated it
really liked it
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