Reviews

Messenger by Lois Lowry

carliereadsoccasionally's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

asurasantosha's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

jackleopards's review

4.0

everything’s starting to connect

djray8's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

equese's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

4.75

kenady_b's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

valentinavc's review against another edition

4.0

Mentor: make village great again!

bperl's review against another edition

2.0

Yeah...that wasn’t good.
It starts well in the first two acts, but the third takes all the careful(ish) world-building established in the previous two books and defenestrates it with extreme prejudice.
ULTIMATE DISHONOR.

zforristal's review against another edition

3.0

It's a good story, intertwining characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue, but it's repetitive, and some flashbacks seem inconsistent with the events in Gathering Blue. The ending was solid, bringing it up to 3 stars.

lauraborkpower's review against another edition

4.0

After finishing this tonight I realize that these books may be best when read back-to-back, which isn't hard to do since they're so short. I know that wasn't the intention--Lowry wrote them years apart; but the emotional impact and full circle story work so well when they're read together.

That said, and without giving anything away, this is a wonderful cap to a great series. The characters are familiar, yet new, and they still have much to learn. As do we, both as readers as well as citizens in a society that Lowry shows us time and time again as fractured and false because of the people who make it so.