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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
Oh, I am so relieved....I had to put this one down at the last chapters and make a cup of tea, my apprehension was so high. I am happy that the author left room for a happy ending...there have been enough unsettling pieces to this quartet and after the ending of Messenger I was sure this one would not wrap up without more heart-rending. Great series, should be read by all at least once!
Well, there's a reason why The Giver is the most well-known and the award-winning book from this quartet... it still sets the standard. That said, in a sense, Son feels closer to that first book than the middle two, as the first 1/3 of this book is seeing the community of The Giver through the eyes of Claire. The book is split into thirds, and the final one wraps up some of the remaining threads from the entire quartet. However, I had some remaining questions about the second part of the book that never came together, and the ending felt a bit abrupt. Overall, the quartet is an interesting study on dystopias and utopias and the trade offs and choices we are willing to make.
I love Lois Lowry, I love how all of her books in this series are tied together in small ways. She is very Clever and an amazing writer. It amazing the imagination she has.
This book does a good job of pulling together the previous books, and I'm happy to find out what happened to Gabe.
The biggest complaint I have is that the books feel young, that I reel like I'm reading a children's book. Which I am. I still feel like with the best of them, this isn't obvious. This isn't really more true of this book than the previous books, although I think it has gotten a little more so with each one.
I feel like the points are being pointed out too clearly, the issues are too black and white. It's all very appropriate for the younger audience...
I liked the characters, I liked the issues that are raised. I'm happy to have this conclusion (although there is one question raised by The Giver I'd still be interested in seeing followup to). I'm glad I read it, and I'd recommend it, particularly for tweens and teens, but for adults as well.
The biggest complaint I have is that the books feel young, that I reel like I'm reading a children's book. Which I am. I still feel like with the best of them, this isn't obvious. This isn't really more true of this book than the previous books, although I think it has gotten a little more so with each one.
I feel like the points are being pointed out too clearly, the issues are too black and white. It's all very appropriate for the younger audience...
I liked the characters, I liked the issues that are raised. I'm happy to have this conclusion (although there is one question raised by The Giver I'd still be interested in seeing followup to). I'm glad I read it, and I'd recommend it, particularly for tweens and teens, but for adults as well.
Best of series, all books were great buy this one wraps up all the characters nicely.
Not as good as the Giver or Gathering Blue, which I absolutely loved, but it was still a great book.
I must say I really liked this one. Everything came together in the end. Liked Claire's character and seeing the beginning of the story through her eyes.
None of the followups to The Giver was as powerful simply because Jonas and Gabe's escape was left so open ended and mysterious.
I am sure that that book then inspired other dystopian tales. It was a story that haunted me for many years before I read any of the ones that showed what had happened to the pair.
This one focuses on Gabe's birth mother, so is a homecoming of sorts, by returning readers to the original community where Jonas and Gabe co-exist with Claire, then the story shifts to her struggle to find Gabe after he and Jonas leave.
It spends an inordinate amount of time developing her character and setting her up for a life in a community that loves and accepts her. And then, abruptly (I am trying to write this without giving anything away), the focus shifts to Gabe and abandons Claire, the character that Lowry so lovingly crafted.
So for 3/4th of the book, I was with Lowry and with Claire, who was such a sympathetic character. It was lovely and sweet to get to know this birth mother who was so determined to return to her son. And then in a deus ex machina move, everything shifts to make sense in a hurry, with answers for everything and.. and... The end.
So 3.5 stars for the fact that 3/4 of it was lovely, before the ending felt rushed and Lowry felt compelled to leave a nicely packaged story with everything explained and neatly wrapped up. It's just too perfect and too obviously explained, which loses its strength.
I am sure that that book then inspired other dystopian tales. It was a story that haunted me for many years before I read any of the ones that showed what had happened to the pair.
This one focuses on Gabe's birth mother, so is a homecoming of sorts, by returning readers to the original community where Jonas and Gabe co-exist with Claire, then the story shifts to her struggle to find Gabe after he and Jonas leave.
It spends an inordinate amount of time developing her character and setting her up for a life in a community that loves and accepts her. And then, abruptly (I am trying to write this without giving anything away), the focus shifts to Gabe and abandons Claire, the character that Lowry so lovingly crafted.
So for 3/4th of the book, I was with Lowry and with Claire, who was such a sympathetic character. It was lovely and sweet to get to know this birth mother who was so determined to return to her son. And then in a deus ex machina move, everything shifts to make sense in a hurry, with answers for everything and.. and... The end.
So 3.5 stars for the fact that 3/4 of it was lovely, before the ending felt rushed and Lowry felt compelled to leave a nicely packaged story with everything explained and neatly wrapped up. It's just too perfect and too obviously explained, which loses its strength.
really just like all the others, but I still like the simplicity of her stories