• Author: Lois Lowry
• ISBN: 9780544340978
• Format: paper
• Start: 2024-09-30
• Finish: 2024-10-13

This is really four books - The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son, but I bought a combined version so I’m treating them as one. I read The Giver in middle school and then again in college when the (awful) movie came out. I loved it so much the second time I immediately read Gathering Blue. This time around, I loved reading The Giver just as much as I had the previous times, although I remembered absolutely nothing from the second book. The third and fourth books are also very good. It was enjoyable to see more of the world and how each of these societies functions. Although each of the books could stand alone, they gain so much as a unit. There were several instances in the series where I wanted a little more explanation of why things were happening the way they were, but that didn’t take much away. I’m sure I’ll read these again at some point.