![]() ![]() I love this idea, of revisiting familiar characters and settings, but from a completely different point of view. As we watch Claire move through the book, we get glimpses of Jonas and Gabe, though all three characters never quite converge at the same time. What I love about Son is that it is a parallel to Jonas and Gabe’s story. In the fourth book of her quartet, Lowry returns to the origins of this series: Jonas and Gabe’s Community, from which they set off to the Unknown to escape. ![]() ![]() And not only has Lowry’s familiar style of writing returned for Son, but so have some familiar characters. These, the first words printed on the inside of the book jacket for Son, immediately hint at a return to Lowry’s style of writing in The Giver and Gathering Blue - a style marked by a sensuousness that I discussed in my Gathering Blue post. ![]()
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