Title: Read Lois Lowry instead
Product review: If you like this type of alternate society book, read The Giver or Gathering Blue instead. In The Giver, kids are given their job assignment based on their skills and temperament. They don't just pick them out of a bag! No wonder the society is failing! Also, some things were just goofy. Why do they need messengers to carry verbal messages? They have paper and pencils, (which are at times scarce and at other times used freely). What's with the library, where things are haphazardly organized? How do Lina and Doon even know what a riverbank is? This book was boring and totally predictable, and the characters such as Lizzie and Looper were annoying distractions rather than being the means by which the plot is moved along. I made myself read this book since it's nominated for the Rebecca Caudill award. Otherwise I would have dropped it after the first chapter.
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