Finishing Gathering Blue

       Okey dokey... This blog post is extremely late but better now than never right?

2 books down.

I have already read The Giver and I have just finished Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. Leaving only The Messenger and Son left to read to finish up this series.

At first, the book Gathering Blue seemed a little slow and not very exciting. But as the book went on, it got a lot more interesting. This book doesn't really tie into The Giver very much, but now that I've started reading the third book, The Messenger, it makes so so so much more sense. The characters' interactions and stories begin to tie into each other; Jonas from The Giver shows up the third book. Because I have only just started The Messenger, the book hasn't exactly explained how Jonas got to where he is now, but it for sure does continue his story. Except it doesn't pick where The Giver left off, it jumps ahead a couple years.

I really like the third book better than the second. As I already said, the second book is slower. This one is more suspenseful, and is just, well...more interesting.

In the second book, the main character's (Kira) supposedly dead father is introduced and the third book shows his story, along with the story of a friend of Kira's.

I actually enjoy the way Lois Lowry has written this story line. It's intriguing and it allows to see all of the character's story connect with each other. Whereas in other books, one character's story is told, then it finishes, then another is told...etc. This particular way the story was written makes the reader have to read the whole series to know what happened to another. And I'm almost done!

2 books to go...