smileysunflower 's review for:

The Giver by Lois Lowry

3.0

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I originally read this book in the 7th grade. I remembered and was interested in rereading it. It held up well. The rating I had for this book was 3 stars but I consider it a 3.5 stars. It's not bad in the slightest but it isn't my favorite either. In terms of plot, it's pretty simple and I think a lot of it was very familiar to audiences in a post-Hunger Games/rise amd fall of YA dystopia world. But I can't fault it for that because it's not trying to be more than what it was and was written before these Utopian/Dystopian was so overplayed. One part I did admire is I do understand why people would have made this community. Why the appeal of safety and lack of emotions would have been appealing but in the end is unjust or just uncomfortable. The writing style was simple but considering I read it in school in middle school, I think that's just the reading level. I cringed every time they referred to people as "females" and "males" but I understand that's the way this community talks. I love that ending though, even if my middle school class hated it at the time. I'm interested in reading the sequels, since I never got to when I was in middle school.