lois lowry's the messenger
this is the third book in lowry's post-apocalyptic fantasy world set of books (after the giver and gathering blue), and it's also the weakest. it resolves the ambiguous ending of the giver, which i didn't really see as a good thing, and it's also less fleshed out than the other two. its characters don't feel as solid and its plot is pretty transparent. i mean, i know it's a YA book, but i expect a lot from lowry. her book autumn street gave me terrible nightmares when i was a kid, and yet i kept rereading it anyway. this book doesn't have anywhere near that kind of power.
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