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dreams_of_attolia 's review for:
The Giver Quartet 20th Anniversary Boxed Set
by Lois Lowry
The Giver is pretty much kiddie dystopia. I loved it when I was young. It's an easily digestible introduction to the genre for grade school readers. The whole series is an odd mix of dystopia and fantasy and filled to the brim with moral messages. Writing has major plausibility issues that kids may overlook, but that are annoying as an adult. Instead of creating a universe and then establishing and following rules governing this universe, Lowry seems to make things up at random as necessary for the story's progression.