cornmaven 's review for:

Son by Lois Lowry
2.0

Full disclosure: I abandoned this book after about 150 pages. Boring, boring, boring. I LOVED the first three books in this "quartet", but I did not really care what happened to Claire. I should have; the plot line was compelling. But the action was anything but riveting.

I also felt the writing was more like 5th-6th grade level, while some of the subject matter was middle to high school level, which left me with a dissonance. And where to put it in a library collection? I am still mulling that over.

I think Lowry should have just stopped at Messenger and let it go at that. It was a good trilogy, even though she does not consider it to be one.