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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackEAN: 9780440239123 ISBN: 0440239125 Label: Laurel Leaf Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: January 24, 2006 Publisher: Laurel Leaf Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: January 24, 2006 Studio: Laurel Leaf Editorial Review: Product Description: For the past six years, Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man, known for his special sight. Village was a place that welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself. From the Trade Paperback edition. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Could have been longer and more developedI read The Giver when I was a lot younger and it left such an impression on me that I decided, at the age of 26, to venture into the young adult section to buy it. I was thrilled to find out that there were two sequels to the novel and quickly got Gathering Blue and Messenger. I loved Gathering Blue, but Messenger left me somehow wanting more. **** SPOILERS**** I think the biggest problem with the novel is that none of the themes seem well developed. The concept that Lowry introduces ... Read More Rating: - A normal kind of book from Lois LowryI must admit that I have never liked Lois Lowry. My first introduction to her was though "The Giver", then "Gathering Blue". "Number the Stars" I read for school (probably the best I read) and then, on a friend's advise, I read "Messenger". I will not be reading anther Lois Lowry book I fear for a long, long time. My biggest complaint, for all her books, is the endings. Messenger did not disappoint me. Her ending, just like them all, just ended. It left less confusion than it did with "Giver" ... Read More Rating:  - very good book, but implausableI read this book right after I finished The gathering Blue, and The Giver before that. I had thought that The Giver was breathtakeing (it brought me to tears), and that Gathering Blue was beautiful because both of those plots seemed plusable in the near future. While Messenger had a good begining (a Utopian society where the disabled and different seek refuge), I thought that portraying the Forest with a menacing personality and not giving a reason for it left a loophole, and there should have been more ... Read More Rating:  - Avoid if you are over the age of 10This was an insipid rehashing of the mythical story of Jesus Christ. Matty, who was my favorite character from Gathering Blue (a vastly superior book)is taking the Jesus Christ pose as he makes the ultimate sacrifice by saving humankind and the world itself in one fell swoop by dying. Allusions to Christ abound throughout the book until the whole process becomes trite and silly. As we are all familiar with this storyline it was a tedious read with an ending I fully expected. Try "The Giver" if you are interested ... Read More Rating:  - The Ideal home changesIdentified as the "Companion": to Newbery-winning "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue", I picked up Messenger with high expectations. The other two were terrific, stunning in their own ways. I wasn't disappointed. Lowry's created world in which the three villages of the three stories exist is clever and well developed. To this adult reader, although it's never stated, it seems these villages rise from the post-Apocalypse world. As in the other two, Lowry creates the finest of reading, a youthful main character worth ... Read More |
