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"Written with powerful, moving simplicity, Claire's story stands on its own, but as the final volume in this iconic quartet, it holistically reunites characters, reprises provocative socio-political themes, and offers a transcending message of tolerance and hope. Bravo!"
—Kirkus, starred review
"Lowry is one of those rare writers who can craft stories as meaningful as they are enticing."
—Booklist, starred review
"Son is a tender conclusion to this memorable story, and definitely the best of the books in this sequence since The Giver itself."
—School Library Journal, starred review
"The strength of this novel is its compassionate portrait of a mother's commitment to her lost child."
—Horn Book
"In the completely absorbing opening, Lowry transports readers back to the horrifying world from which Jonas came."
—Publishers Weekly
“A consummate stylist, Lowry handles it all magnificently: the leaps in time, the shifts in perspective, the moments of extreme emotion — fear, joy, sadness — all conveyed in unadorned prose that seizes the heart. Give this book to your child, your grandmother, your senator, your neighbor: It’s a bipartisan tale for our times.”
—The Washington Post
“Lois Lowry's Son [is] a gripping end to the Giver series”
—The Los Angeles Times
“It's the kind of book that will stay with you for days as you wonder about what it says about human nature, society, and the future of society.”
—YPulse.com
"A quiet, sorrowful, deeply moving exploration of the powers of empathy and the obligations of love."
—The New York Times Book Review
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To be fair, I'd really give it 3.5 stars, but you can't give half stars on here. In order to explain my opinion on this book, I need to start by explaining my view on the rest of the series:
I've considered The Giver my favorite book ever since I read it in 8th grade. I still love it even after teaching it for years as a novel study in my own classes (It never gets old for me). Gathering Blue was a nice companion book as well (I liked seeing another type of community in this world of the future). However, I despised The Messenger, & I like to pretend it doesn't exist (the feel of that book was completely different from the other two, and it added this "magical" element that I didn't see in the others; don't get me wrong, I love magic & fantasy, but it doesn't make sense for me in this world [which I see as just a possible future of our own world]. Jonas' "gift" didn't seem magical to me, just an evolution, a way to look beyond the conrol the community created, like he wasn't affected by their technology. The Messenger changed all of that and seemed choppy & incomplete to me, so I was really excited to learn that it wasn't, in fact, the conclusion of this series.
I went into Son with high hopes, & was pretty satisfied with the beginning (which takes us back to Jonas' community). I liked seeing that community from a different perspective (some aspects of it, didn't mesh with my reality of it, but I still really enjoyed this part of the book). The second section of the book was interesting as well (though I preferred seeing things in Jonas' community). I like learning about all the different ways of life in this world, & it was interesting seeing how Claire began to make sense of the world she knew & the one she was learing to see as a home (and became more of a home than she ever had in Jonas' community). The 3rd section is where I was frustratingly thrust back into the world of The Messenger. Everything I didn't like about that book was back again. I wanted to see Jonas, Gabe, & Kira again (& I liked the idea of Claire being thrown into their mix), but not like that. Magic was back, the Trademaster was back, and it was incredibly choppy to boot. The battle at the end left a lot to be desired, seemed simple, convenient, and unrealistic.
Son is still worth reading, but don't expect it to have the same feel as The Giver (or Gathering Blue).
I LOVED the Giver, thought it was well written and so creative, absorbing, and with a very well defined / consistent to itself, dystopian society.
"Son" started out promisingly, but the last parts of book were very disappointing. While the book started out in the same dystopian setting as "the Giver", the last two parts of the story departed into extreme fantasy and extremely unrealistic elements. And left all sorts of questions about the original setting for the Giver, unanswered - so very unsatisfying. (SPOILER ALERT)
In Son -- there are settings that seem totally unreal (a village that grows up behind a virtually insurmountable barrier separating it from the outside world and making it almost impossible to ever escape without years of extreme physical endurance training). And wildly supernatural elements are introduced (a character who can INSTANTY grant any wishes -- e.g., changed physical appearance, a material possession, a specific spouse, finding something lost, etc. -- and can also supernaturally and instantly take away people's looks, honor, youth, or other physical or character qualities. Just way too wild to accept. I was also disappointed that the village Jonas had escaped to - instead of providing answers, ended up just being a village made up of various refugees / escapees from various dysfunctional societies.
It would have been so satisfying to understand how the society in "The Giver" had originally come about, what other communities were like, what the outside world was like (e.g., in "Son" - the people who came on boats to deliver supplies were apparently from the ordinary world. How were they involved in delivering supplies to the dystopian world of the Giver?) Also, when Jonas left his society in "The Giver", the hope had been that the society he left might experience change and freedom through the restoration of memories (that were to come back to them after Jonas left). It would have been so interesting to go back and see if the society had changed. But "Son" didn't give any indication that this would ever happen.
The Giver is one of my favorite books of all time. It's complex and beautiful. Each of its sequels, though, have disappointed me. Son is no exception. It begins in the same village as The Giver and is told through the perspective of Claire, a Birthmother. The first part of the book is promising, but really just retells Giver from another angle.
And that's as good as it gets. The other 2/3 of the book is an overlong, heavy-handed moral fable. The whys of this series are still never explained and, as in Messenger, Evil is "vanquished" in an almost laughable manner. I'm completely unsatisfied and wish I'd never read any of there mediocre sequels.
This is the story of Claire, a young woman in her teens, who lives in the dystopic community we entered into in The Giver. As the story unfolds, we find that she is the birthmother of Gabriel, the young child that Jonas rescues at the end of the first book of the quartet. Themes of the love and longing of motherhood are portrayed beautifully and powerfully in this book. Ms. Lowry draws us into her world, a world that mingles reality and fantasy in subtle ways, and makes us look at our own world in a new light.
Lois Lowry has a true gift for writing books for young people that explore profound and difficult themes in effective ways. I read The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger as a young person and loved them. I still love them as an adult. This last book of the quartet struck me in a particularly vivid way since I was reading it as a young mother myself. But I wonder if I would have connected with it as well as a younger reader.
Each of the three sections of this book - Before, Between, and Beyond - struck me as curiously distinct in tone and emphasis. By the end, though, the three sections - and the characters of the four books in the series - come together for a beautiful and satisfying ending. It's a more neatly wrapped conclusion than what I've come to expect from the other books of the series, but I found myself enjoying the finality and closure that it gave to the stories of the characters I've come to love.
Easily the best sequel in series...and I liked both Gathering Blue and Messenger! I have read and re-read The Giver several times since I first read it is a child. It was always one of my favorite books, and I loved the intentionally ambiguous ending. This being said, I was thrilled to be transported back to the community that Jonas and Gabe escaped from. Seeing the community from the perspective of Claire made the effect of the society that much more chilling. I was actually a little sad when this first part of the book ended.
The second part of the book was nearly as good. Claire's gradual recovering of her memories is heart-wrenching to read. The friendship and tension between Claire and Einar is another strong point of this section, as is watching her strengthen herself for the coming climb. I would have to agree with another reviewer, though, that once Claire reached the top and met Trademaster, that there was a let-down. I was disappointed in the trade that Claire made, because she had worked so incredibly hard to get up to this point.
In part three, the pacing of the book seems to slow down. I would have liked to have read more of Claire's perspective in this section. Gabe's development and realization of his power and the secret of Claire seemed to be a bit rushed at the end. I guess I had hoped that Gabe would veer into Claire and feel her love for him. The ending of the book was fabulous, though! It surprised me, in a way, but it was a good surprise. The ending paragraphs were poignant and really resolved the entire series for me. Even with a few gripes, I loved this book!
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