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Son by Lois Lowry - Science Fiction - Fifth grade and up. wow. Most powerful of books I've read in a long time. Read within a day since I actually had time to focus on it. Wow. So, the characters were continued from The Giver, a little bit, with extra characters added in that I never would have dreamed possible. I loved how the storyline developed and the new characters rounded out the old ones. I really want to make time to retread The Giver again, at least, along with Gathering Blue and The Me
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I didn't love it, which makes me sad, because The Giver is perhaps my favorite childhood book.
The book is divided into thirds. The first third tells of Claire, Gabriel's birthmother, and her life in the community that first appears in The Giver. The second follows Claire to a primitive community, where she tries to remember her old life in the community. The third takes place with Jonas, Kira, Gabriel, and Claire in their new community (from Gathering Blue and Messenger).
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The book is divided into thirds. The first third tells of Claire, Gabriel's birthmother, and her life in the community that first appears in The Giver. The second follows Claire to a primitive community, where she tries to remember her old life in the community. The third takes place with Jonas, Kira, Gabriel, and Claire in their new community (from Gathering Blue and Messenger).
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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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In Son, Lowry proficiently ties together all of the loose ends from the previous books in The Giver trilogy (now quartet). I relished the return to the sterile dystopian community of The Giver from the perspective of birthmother Claire, but the middle part of the book struggled to find its focus. The final third of Son cleared up all of my lingering questions from both The Giver and The Messenger, but in a way that felt disappointing rather than enlightening. All of the mysterious ambiguity that
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Beautiful conclusion to the Giver series. As much as I love a good love triangle (and I do! :) ) it's nice to experience what a skilled author like Lois Lowry does with dystopia - the way she pushes us to think a bit.
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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
What a satisfying conclusion to a much-loved series. I wish the last book had gone on a little longer, it seemed to wrap up so quickly.
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
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