Review: Gathering Blue

In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain 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.

I was blown away with Lowry’s first book The Giver and I started have these feels before I had even picked up the second book. I was not sure what was going to happen, where she was going to go with it, and if I was going to be satisfied or not.

Although Gathering Blue is in a series, it can be read as a standalone. I have to admit that I was really shocked when I found out that this was a total different story. I was expecting to see Jonas and Gabe and see what happened to them, however, this was not the case. This was a different story, with a different plot line, but the same governmental control.

Kira was such a strong female character. She is born with a physical disability and with that she is segregated from society. People want her to die but the government has other plans for her. They take her in, give her a new home but with all this lay secrets that will not be easy to hear.

Lowry knows how to write cliffhangers. The ending was so much and I need to know what happens with Kira, Jonas, and Gabe. I am now wondering if she does this with all her books. I am curious to see how Lois Lowry links her other two novels together with these or will this quartet be one with standalones. Lois Lowry has captured my heart once again with the spell binding book. Gathering Blue is a true phenomenon.

I give it 5 bites!