Gathering Blue

Gathering Blue

By: Louis Lowery

Pages: 224

ISBN: 0440229499

Genre: Dystopia

Setting: A slightly futuristic village but not because they live in huts.

Gathering Blue is about an orphaned girl, Kira. Kira’s fate is decided in the beginning of the book after her mother dies of an awful illness. Kira is chosen to fix the singers robe. Kira’s mother used to be the mender of the singers robe before she became ill. Kira’s mother taught her the trade. Kira’s talent seems to have an extra lace to it. Sometimes when she has a piece of fabric that seemed to form it’s self in her hand she feels like she has an extra guidance through this fabric. This is the story of Kira finding out the truth of the village she’s always know to be her home. Kira’s family becomes a boy named Thomas and a tike named Matt. These boys give her a sense of security in a world that, as it turns out, she doesn’t know at all.

I thought the book did a good job of grabbing your attention and getting you to continue to turn the pages of the book. It also did a good job of teaching there is always more to a story than just what is right in front of you. I’m not sure I would recommend this book. I would rather spend my time reading a different book.