Messenger
Lois Lowry
Launch the media gallery 1 player - media #1Messenger is the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet.
Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once 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 risk everything to make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.
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.
I liked that the characters from the first two books reappear. This book helps to tie up those stories, and I really liked that. It was a short, well written interesting read.