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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
This book did a nice job tying the other characters in. Loved it up until the end though the end was missing something for me. Highly reccomend it.
Interesting and unexpected conclusion to the series. It's been too long since I read the others so I didn't remember the back story very well, but that didn't prevent me from being drawn in.
This did a good job of wrapping up the storylines in the previous three books and was interesting enough to keep turning the pages. The ending was a little too much fantasy, disappointing and of course abrupt. Still a pretty entertaining read.
Better by far than Messenger, but not as good as Gathering Blue or The Giver. The ending seemed abrupt; the middle was very slow at times.
4 wonderful frosted sugar cookies.
Cover Love: I don't really love this cover, but I love all four of the new covers put together.
Why I Wanted to Read This: The Giver is the defining dystopian novel for middle graders but it is also one the adults love. Most people don't even realize that there are four books in this series. Those of you that do wouldn't stop until you have read all four! This is the last one.
Read the rest of my review here.
Cover Love: I don't really love this cover, but I love all four of the new covers put together.
Why I Wanted to Read This: The Giver is the defining dystopian novel for middle graders but it is also one the adults love. Most people don't even realize that there are four books in this series. Those of you that do wouldn't stop until you have read all four! This is the last one.
Read the rest of my review here.
emotional
Cried many times and continue to do so whenever I think of the book
I like the first two thirds of the book but the last part I didn't like at all.
Spoiler
You spend the first two books with Claire, seeing how she lived and grew to find her son. And then the last part is all about Gabriel. It just didn't feel like the same book or even like she didn't know how to end the whole thing now that Claire was an old woman.
LOIS!! Thank you for wrapping all of the MANY loose ends from the first three books up so nicely. The first three endings left me with so many questions and this book answered them! I love that everything came together and getting to see the connections between each book. Also thank you for finally letting these unfortunate souls have a happy ending, goodness gracious, I really I think I might have died if this ended in the death of even one main character.
3.5 stars. I really enjoyed this story as it tied the stories together, taking us all the way back to The Giver. It moved at a nice pace, it was interesting to read about yet another group of people who lived a completely different way of life (those who saved Claire from the sea). But I felt that in the ending it was lacking. We learn that Gabe has a gift, that he must use that gift to fight "evil" and that it will save Claire. This all happens in the last 15 pages...I wanted to know more...why was this evil here? Where did it come from? Was it what caused the previous civilization to fall apart and thus creating all these different and unique villages/ways of life? Would all those different communities ever really come together? Who were the people who came on the boats? They obviously knew about the different communities...I just felt that there were a lot of unanswered questions about this world that was created. I sort of left feeling like the story was not really done.. But if you have read the other 3 books, the this a good read.