Lois Lowry is a master and making you turn the pages. How many syllables your name has is a status of how old they are. But in some ways this community is better than Jonas’s because there is color, personality, deep family love, and some freedom. In some ways this community is worse off because there is poverty, hunger and no education. I liked contrasting this society with that of Jonas’s from The Giver. And yes, you get to find out at the end what happens to Jonas. The story feels nothing like The Giver until you get to the end, where Lois Lowry ties the two books together in a beautiful way. The community and the characters are completely different from The Giver. Gathering Blue is about an orphan girl, Kira, with a gift of dyeing and weaving threads. Spoiler free even if you haven’t read the first book in this series. Every reader will be taken by Kira’s plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future.
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