The Giver by Lois Lowry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jonas is soon to be a Twelve. In December, when everybody in the community, to which similarity is the most important thing, turns one year older, he will be twelve year old and that means that he will get assigned to a working career. Everybody's happy with what he or she is going to do, the Elders decided wisely. Fiona is going to be a caretaker for the elderly because she likes this work best, a boy who likes building things and mathematics is going to be an engineer...sounds quite logical, right? The community always chooses the best for their members...they do, right? So Jonas becomes assigned to a very special task. He will be the new Receiver and live with all the memories the people in the community don't have anymore...such like individuality, differences, snow, hills, love but also pain.
The Giver was a very nice to read, thrilling and also surprising dystopian novel. I really liked the author's writing style and the characters and the society seemed to be very real...it wasn't too fantastic that one couldn't imagine that something like this could be possible somewhere somewhen. It was a good reading experience to follow Jonas on his way...but this way ended too abruptly in my opinion. Even though there is a sequel I'd prefer to have it all bound up a little more in the first book.
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