The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry - Reading 'The Giver (The Giver Quartet #1)' from February 5th 2019

[Maddie]

25% (view spoiler)[Oh wow he healed the dog? (hide spoiler)]
40% (view spoiler)[Wonder what's happening with Mentor... And why are people being mean? Seems things are slipping in Village (hide spoiler)]
How old is Matty? If he's got feelings?

[Maddie]

Noooo my comment disappeared when my laptop restarted :/ Ugh that's so annoying! Oh well XD

[Maddie]

I had a few more updates, but oh well

[Maddie]

Time to finish this one up. 2 in one day, yay! And tomorrow will get through #4 assuming I can find a spot in challenge.

[Maddie]

64% (view spoiler)[Okay now I'm so confused XD What's going on? This is what happens when I get distracted for a few minutes. (hide spoiler)]
89% (view spoiler)[I have no idea why the Forest is being so cruel? Aren't they just trying to get back to Village, so Kira can be with her father? (hide spoiler)]
97% (view spoiler)[How is she talking to her father...? (hide spoiler)]
Finished (view spoiler)[Wait did he just die... (hide spoiler)]

Review: I'm so glad we got to revisit characters from both #1 and #2! I got distracted for a bit in the middle and lost the train of the audio, so I was a little confused in the middle, but oh well, hopefully I caught back on at the end. It just got super weird, with Forest and their magical gifts and things. The first book is still definitely my favourite. Am glad to be finishing up the series tomorrow. Wonder how it will tie in!

[Maddie]

1% (view spoiler)[Okay so she's a birth mother from Jonah's village? They're seen as 'vessels', interesting! I'm so pleased that we go back to Jonah's community, it's much more interesting! (hide spoiler)]
2% (view spoiler)[Holy moly she's 14! (hide spoiler)]
15% (view spoiler)[Oh my gosh is Number 35 Gabriel??? As soon as I thought that she heard the man whisper 'Abe' which is basically Gabe! So the man is Jonah's father, and Gabriel's the son. Only popped into my head because he mentioned he was a restless baby and they'd take him home and reassess in a year, which is what happened in #1. (hide spoiler)] Glad I'm reading this series so close together.
20% (view spoiler)[Love hearing of Jonas' 12 ceremony from another POV (hide spoiler)]
21% (view spoiler)[Glad that there was no spark of romance there (hide spoiler)]
24% (view spoiler)[So if they can't see colours, what happens when the people from outside the community wear colours? (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

29% (view spoiler)[Nooo he's saying bye bye as if it's normal :( :( (hide spoiler)]
30% (view spoiler)[So cool to see what happened in the community after Jonas and Gabe left! (hide spoiler)]
38% (view spoiler)[How have they never seen birds before...? (hide spoiler)]
41% (view spoiler)[And she's never heard music, or heard of love! It just doesn't make sense as to why or how they don't know these things... And how does the guy like her but also act so solemn around her.. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

54% (view spoiler)[Why is she running with rocks? (hide spoiler)]
55% (view spoiler)[Wow someone's got no feet? I think I must have lost something XD (hide spoiler)]
58% (view spoiler)[What's climbing out again? Wait is it actually climbing up a cliff? Are they in a hole in the ground or something? (hide spoiler)]
62% (view spoiler)[Why does she need the gloves on? (hide spoiler)]
64% (view spoiler)[I don't know what's happening anymore, glad this is the final one, it means I don't have to focus on it too much and doesn't matter if I get lost (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

66% (view spoiler)[No idea who this guy is, but apparently he cut off her friend's foot?
Is this why Kira's father didn't want Matty trading? Because it wasn't just money they traded? Yes, he's the Trademaster. All these subtle connections I'd miss if I didn't read these close together (hide spoiler)]
Book Three
67% (view spoiler)[Ah yay Gabe's noticed his mother but not who she is
Weird how all of these characters have special powers (hide spoiler)]
69% (view spoiler)[Yay Kira and Jonas know each other now. OH MY GOD KIRA AND JONAH ARE MARRIED! Wish we'd seen how that relationship came about (hide spoiler)]
72% (view spoiler)[NAW MATTY DIED! (hide spoiler)]
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[Maddie]

77% (view spoiler)[HAHAHA parents gathered their dishes and babies, love how they lump them together (hide spoiler)]
88% (view spoiler)[Naw now Claire's dying. So sad how the main characters die, but it is realistic! (hide spoiler)]
Finished. I was so happy to return back to Jonas' community at the start, and all of the character changes throughout this book were so good, but it just doesn't feel real, I didn't feel as connected as I did throughout the first book. I'm glad I read this series so close together, or I wouldn't have been able to understand and connect all of the small similarities. Pleased to have another series done, especially one so well-known as this. Now I need to watch the movie!

[Shae]

40% (view spoiler)[ it was funny how she found the water inside impractical and would rather bathe in the stream. (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

60% (view spoiler)[ I feel like maybe there’s all these different societies in this world and that Kirra and Jonas will meet each other at some point (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Yeah I got that feeling too.

[Shae]

94% (view spoiler)[ wow I can’t bekueve she found her father! (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

finished (view spoiler)[ Jeremiah actually tried to kill her father??? Wow I thought he was sus throughout the story! (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

33% (view spoiler)[ this trade Mart is strange, I want to know more about it! And I wonder what that family traded for the game machine, they seem ashamed by it! (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

55% (view spoiler)[ oh wow Kirra is in this one! Maybe things will start tying together soon (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

70% (view spoiler)[ I like how Kirra didn’t want Matty to heal her leg, as that was who she is (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

Finished (view spoiler)[ sooo strange how they are stuck in the forest. And Kira is talking to her dad. I really didn’t get the ending. And like Kira sees the future through her threads she weaves, and the blind man sees beyond or something. It kind of implied there’s multiple worlds haha I feel it’s gone fantastical rather than dystopian right now (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

Maddison wrote: "
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Replying to your1% and 2% comments (view spoiler)[ so crazy how they are vessels and she is only 14!! I’m getting handmaids tale vibes from that first chapter!! The dystopian vibe is back (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

Maddison wrote: "[bookcover:
15% [spoilers removed] Glad I'm reading this series so close

(view spoiler)[ yes it must be Gabe! I am loving this book, I think even more then number 1! It’s all so interesting. I wonder if Claire will get Gabe back (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Yeah it's so interesting!

[Shae]

Maddison wrote: "
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(view spoiler)[ do you think she hasn’t felt love because of the tablets they take to reduce the feelings? (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Oh fair point!

[Shae]

Maddison wrote: "
66% No idea who thided? Yes..."

(view spoiler)[ wait so Kirras dad was the one who didn’t want matty trading? I was so lost during this part of the book, the fantastical elements just took over. But then they mentioned the trade master and I felt I understood again. So she has made the trade to have her son back, I wonder what she actually traded! (hide spoiler)]