Messenger
by Lois Lowry
Published in 2004 (I finished it on November 02, 2014)
It's no "Giver," but it certainly beats "Gathering Blue." Again, I wasn't blown away by any aspect of the book, but I'm also well beyond a Young Adult reader. I wanted to see what became of past characters and now I have. I don't think I'll finish the fourth book of the quartet. To reemphasize, this book is better than the second but not the first.

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