miduhadi 's review for:

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

2.0

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Creates a feeling of dread very nicely but doesn’t follow through.

The protag is made to look so smart in so many ways and yet her stupidity gets an old woman killed!

Barely anything happens in the book and it feels like a go-between for the first and third books in the series.

Almost everyone in Kira’s village is an asshole. I mean, yeah you would expect people to be less than lovely when they kick out the weak and crippled. But dude, such a society won’t even survive for two years let alone for how long these guys survived. How come I don’t know that? BECAUSE THE AUTHOR NEVER TOLD US THAT! Along with the size of the village, where it was located, how it formed etc. You name it and we won’t know it!

Oh and now I feel like docking another star off my rating because I just found out the story doesn’t continue in the next book! I was like, fine it has a sucky cliffhanger but we will know more. But we won’t because the next book isn’t about this village.

We are left stranded with a character who is already an outcast because she is handicapped physically and universally hated socially. She refuses to escape with her father who has come back from the dead to save her from the clutches of his murderer. She is going to attempt to make her village a better place. This is a village where children with any artistic talent (weaving, carving, singing) are taken away from their parents who are then murdered. The kids will be kept in servitude. Why are they taken and why does one of them feel as if his craft is being sponged out of his mind is never answered. Along with a gazillion other questions.

Okay, I need to read something else or I might kill somebody!

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