Gathering Blue

It was a sweet book. I didn't like it as much as I did The Giver, but it was nice. The one thing I have to say though is that it's really slow.

Now the world is different then The Giver's, it was more savage and filthy. The main character, Kira is a 11-12 year old girl who was born with a twisted leg. Now naturally in their world if you have some problem they bury you in the field and the "beasts" come and eat you. But even though her mother died and her father was taken by the beasts she's able to fend for herself. She find out that she has a gift. Whenever she uses thread they seem to control themselves making magnificent art.

In the story she has a little tag-a-long 7-8 boy named Matt and his dog Branch, who helps her a lot. She also meets a 11-12 year old carver named Thomas and a 3-4 year old girl named Jo. Thomas, Jo and Kira all have gifts and over the course of this book they realize how important their gifts really are.



If you're wondering; you DO NOT have to read The Giver before you read this. But if you want to read the last book in the series; The Messenger you have to have read The Giver and Gathering Blue.


ENJOY!!!