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This was a terrible disappointment. I read it to finish the series, but it was hard to get through. My main complaint is that 1) nearly every character is seems almost deliberately stupid (makes bad choices, misses the obvious, ect.) and, 2) Lowry’s world doesn’t make much sense.
Son does tie more directly to the Giver than the other two books in the quartet. The protagonist of Son and the protagonist of the Giver come from the same dystopian settlement. And he makes several appearances in Son.
Lowry’s world is surreal and discontinuous. Little communities with their own rules and culture and completely different levels of technical development are scattered around, but don’t interact beyond accepting and expelling refugees. I think that is one of the many reasons that The Giver is the best of the lot. It focuses on one of these communities and an escape from it that doesn’t bring out many of the flaws and logical inconsistencies in the relationships between these communities.
Son does tie more directly to the Giver than the other two books in the quartet. The protagonist of Son and the protagonist of the Giver come from the same dystopian settlement. And he makes several appearances in Son.
Lowry’s world is surreal and discontinuous. Little communities with their own rules and culture and completely different levels of technical development are scattered around, but don’t interact beyond accepting and expelling refugees. I think that is one of the many reasons that The Giver is the best of the lot. It focuses on one of these communities and an escape from it that doesn’t bring out many of the flaws and logical inconsistencies in the relationships between these communities.