You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Beautiful and moving and a satisfying end to a marvelous story.
adventurous
medium-paced
I think The Giver stands on its own and didn't need to become a series. But I did really enjoy reading the quartet!
Loveeeeeee JFIC/YA dystopian.
when i thought we might finally see the downfall of jonas's society but they just played up the importance of the tradey guy
So now having finished this book, I take back what I said about #2 and #3. Although I noticed a couple minor inconsistencies, I think this book did a really good job of tying all the aspects of the 3 stories together.
It all came together in this last book, but I found it really slow pace and not interesting at all.
Disappointing ending to this series.
Disappointing ending to this series.
The closing book of The Giver quartet is powerful and satisfying, tying together the plots and characters of the previous three books and introducing an unforgettable new character, Claire.
Claire is from the dystopian community of The Giver, having been chosen at a young age to be a Birthmother. But when something goes wrong during the birth, her usefulness in this role is done and she's assigned to a job in the fish hatchery. She never forgets her experience or stops wondering about the baby taken from her, and eventually puts her own life at risk to find what she lost so long ago.
The middle section of Son is lovely and emotional, as we see Claire transform herself in order to gain the strength and perseverance needed to find her missing child. The final section of the book falters a bit, as the plot veers more toward the stuff of fairy tales, but ultimately it provides a strong finish to an important series.
Claire is from the dystopian community of The Giver, having been chosen at a young age to be a Birthmother. But when something goes wrong during the birth, her usefulness in this role is done and she's assigned to a job in the fish hatchery. She never forgets her experience or stops wondering about the baby taken from her, and eventually puts her own life at risk to find what she lost so long ago.
The middle section of Son is lovely and emotional, as we see Claire transform herself in order to gain the strength and perseverance needed to find her missing child. The final section of the book falters a bit, as the plot veers more toward the stuff of fairy tales, but ultimately it provides a strong finish to an important series.
2 stars-
I was very excited to read this after re-reading The Giver, and heard from many that this was a great wrap-up to that story. I may have gone in with slightly different expectations than I should have.
I enjoyed the first third of the novel and found it compelling, but then the rest of the novel felt very sentimental and saccharine without much justification, and I felt that everything was just a bit too vague.
All in all, not for me. But I still enjoy the Giver as a stand-alone!
I was very excited to read this after re-reading The Giver, and heard from many that this was a great wrap-up to that story. I may have gone in with slightly different expectations than I should have.
I enjoyed the first third of the novel and found it compelling, but then the rest of the novel felt very sentimental and saccharine without much justification, and I felt that everything was just a bit too vague.
All in all, not for me. But I still enjoy the Giver as a stand-alone!
Looking at other reviews, I see that most everyone agrees with me in that this book really didn't conclude anything.
(We also could have had more about the society in the Giver, but that was...not really in there either.) So. Besides the fact that Ms. Lowry repeated lots of stuff from Messenger and the book ended...it was..not...horrible.
(We also could have had more about the society in the Giver, but that was...not really in there either.) So. Besides the fact that Ms. Lowry repeated lots of stuff from Messenger and the book ended...it was..not...horrible.
The Son was a disappointing conclusion to The Giver series. It did have the benefit of letting the reader see what happened to Gabe from book 1 and Kira from book 2, as well as developing some of the events of book 3, but as such there was also a lot of recapping, and so it was easy to become bogged down in summations. We begin in Jonas and Gabe's world, contemporary with The Giver. This was for me the most interesting part of the book (probably because it is the most intriguing of the worlds Lowry has created). We end in the Village of book 3, and we are introduced to a new world only in the "in-between." This world, however, is rather ordinary and lacks the intrigue of the other worlds Lowry has created. (It is extraordinary in one inexplicable way, however: this world is somehow, for no clear reason, entirely inescapable unless one spends pages and pages and pages training to scale a cliff and engage in a melodramatic battle with nature.) I just found the book as a whole to be slow plodding compared to her other novels. Trademaster makes a reappearance but remains an unrealistic and trope-like character, a mere symbolic and heavy handed embodiment of evil. The last shred of realism is drained out in this final book, and it was overall too fantastical and allegorical for my tastes.