Paperback, 175 pages
Spanish language
Published Dec. 15, 2004 by Editorial Everest.
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Seis años antes, Mati llegó a Pueblo siendo un niño rudo y astuto. Pero, desde aquellos tiempos, se ha transformado en un joven honrado bajo la tutela de Veedor, un ciego que debe su nombre a su extraordinaria percepción. Ahora Mati está esperando que le den su nombre verdadero, y Mensajero es el que anhela..."
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Seis años antes, Mati llegó a Pueblo siendo un niño rudo y astuto. Pero, desde aquellos tiempos, se ha transformado en un joven honrado bajo la tutela de Veedor, un ciego que debe su nombre a su extraordinaria percepción. Ahora Mati está esperando que le den su nombre verdadero, y Mensajero es el que anhela..."
Nice to see some if the characters from the first 2 books meeting. A fun read, sort of predictable in parts but I still enjoyed it.
The last two books in this series ([b:The Giver|3636|The Giver (The Giver, #1)|Lois Lowry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1342493368l/3636.SY75.jpg|2543234] and [b:Gathering Blue|12936|Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)|Lois Lowry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388195391l/12936.SY75.jpg|2134456]) were completely different stories involving distinct characters and set in different locales. This is the book that brings those two together: we get to meet Jonas again, and Matty, and Kira, and Kira’s father.
In the first two books, the villages started out feeling idyllic and utopian, but as we got deeper into the story, we discovered that things weren’t as they appeared and it wasn’t all sunshine and roses. In this one, the village IS an idyllic utopia, but something happens that corrupts everything.
And all I can say is... wow. It’s amazing. It shows us that, no matter how perfect things are at the outset, human beings will always screw it up with their own selfish greed. Something’s going seriously wrong in …
The last two books in this series ([b:The Giver|3636|The Giver (The Giver, #1)|Lois Lowry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1342493368l/3636.SY75.jpg|2543234] and [b:Gathering Blue|12936|Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)|Lois Lowry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388195391l/12936.SY75.jpg|2134456]) were completely different stories involving distinct characters and set in different locales. This is the book that brings those two together: we get to meet Jonas again, and Matty, and Kira, and Kira’s father.
In the first two books, the villages started out feeling idyllic and utopian, but as we got deeper into the story, we discovered that things weren’t as they appeared and it wasn’t all sunshine and roses. In this one, the village IS an idyllic utopia, but something happens that corrupts everything.
And all I can say is... wow. It’s amazing. It shows us that, no matter how perfect things are at the outset, human beings will always screw it up with their own selfish greed. Something’s going seriously wrong in the village, and the author knows just how to pace it so it seems benign and easily fixable in the beginning, but escalates to horrors that nobody could have imagined possible.
The world-building is, again, perfect, the story is perfect, everything is just... perfect. And that ending just about left me literally gasping for breath!
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