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Son (The Giver, #4)
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I love The Giver. I count it as one of my favorite books of all time. It was the book that inspired me to read and made me want to write.
And I should have stopped at The Giver. My ratings of the books in the series have gotten progressively worse. I liked Gathering Blue, wish I didn't read The Messenger, and now wish I could take back time with The Son. I spent money on it, and I want it back. Sort of. I do love Lois Lowry.
But this is a great example of how to set rules and not break them. The Giver's rules were a little bit out of the ordinary, a little bit fantasy. That does not mean that suddenly, at the end of the series, you get a personification of evil that gambles and deals like the devil.
No. No. Noooooo.
Where the hell did this come from? Your guess is as good as mine, because I have no idea.
Then the ending. I don't get it. The moral was fight evil? Okay...that's...no justification for how long this book was. She's training for the cliff! Has she gone up the cliff yet? Nope. Still training. ON THE CLIFF! Still on the cliff. Are we going to get off this cliff?
And then you meet the Devil. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Which, I don't get why if you stand up to Evil, it still wins. Apparently you have to be super special and either Jonas or Gabriel and then, and only then!, will evil be swayed by you.
But seriously.
That entire book just so we can fight a personification of evil?
I feel cheated because there was no point to this. It didn't add anything to the arc. It gave a moral that I realized at five.
One star and a desperately plea for Target to give me my money back.
And I should have stopped at The Giver. My ratings of the books in the series have gotten progressively worse. I liked Gathering Blue, wish I didn't read The Messenger, and now wish I could take back time with The Son. I spent money on it, and I want it back. Sort of. I do love Lois Lowry.
But this is a great example of how to set rules and not break them. The Giver's rules were a little bit out of the ordinary, a little bit fantasy. That does not mean that suddenly, at the end of the series, you get a personification of evil that gambles and deals like the devil.
No. No. Noooooo.
Where the hell did this come from? Your guess is as good as mine, because I have no idea.
Then the ending. I don't get it. The moral was fight evil? Okay...that's...no justification for how long this book was. She's training for the cliff! Has she gone up the cliff yet? Nope. Still training. ON THE CLIFF! Still on the cliff. Are we going to get off this cliff?
And then you meet the Devil. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Which, I don't get why if you stand up to Evil, it still wins. Apparently you have to be super special and either Jonas or Gabriel and then, and only then!, will evil be swayed by you.
But seriously.
That entire book just so we can fight a personification of evil?
I feel cheated because there was no point to this. It didn't add anything to the arc. It gave a moral that I realized at five.
One star and a desperately plea for Target to give me my money back.
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May 05, 2013 05:31PM
I definitely agree! I was so frustrated with this ending.
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I felt the ending was rushed as well, and I never like this Trademaster thing even in book 3. While Matty had to sacrifice himself and Einar lost both of his feet, this Trademaster seemed too easy for Gabe to defeat. Also, after reading about Einar for such a long time, getting to see him with Claire as a pair, I was very disappointed not seeing any light about Einar at the end (except that Claire still remembered him fondly when she related her story to Jonas)...
Amen, I felt the same way. Should have stopped reading at The Giver.
I agree with your review 100%. Glad it wasn't just me. And I loved The Giver too.
You know, the cliff part was frustrating (because it was slower) but it still kept my attention. It felt like a kind of rustic rehab for Claire, you know? I hadn't read Messenger before this book (only Giver and Gathering Blue) and I was enjoying it. But as soon as I read those last couple of pages of Book II (where Claire gives up her youth), I was just: What. The. Heck. Just. Happened. I mean, I actually am religious and believe in personifications of absolute good and evil, but I wasn't expecting that to creep into the book. Not at all. What. On. Earth.
I think its worse than that. Lois Lowry completely dropped the ball by trying to explain, like REALLY explain what she meant or how she thinks the world should be. The Trademaster wasn't simply "evil", he was the capitalism.
The Giver would be a perfect book without the other three.
