The Giver Review — cinemablend.com

Don’t curse the great Katniss in the sky and instantly dismiss The Giver as recycled garbage from the YA trash heap, though. Published in 1993, Lois Lowry’s The Giver pre-dates the bestselling literary outputs of Suzanne Collins and Veronica Roth, to name the two “big dogs” in this current teen-friendly field. In other words, we wouldn’t have The Hunger Games, Divergent or this recent crop of post-apocalyptic save-the-day romance thrillers. And those exercises aren’t quite as entertaining as The Giver ends up being in its finest moments.

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