I like how when you read the book, it doesn’t really feel like the future. In fact, the setting seems positively retro with the bikes and the innocence, like the 50s or something. But its not. Jonas, he of pale eyes, lives in a Community where everything is regimented. Everything and everyone has its place and time. Your path is set from the moment you are born from your birthmother until the moment you are released from old age. Jonas is in the 11th year of his life and in the next ceremony, when he (and everybody born in the same year as him) will turn 12 and will be assigned their official jobs.
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I read the book for the first time three years ago and found myself saddened that I hadn’t read it in my youth when it came out. In any case, I absolutely LOVED it, partially because of what you said, “[Y]ou are slowly made to realize that this perfect world is anything but.”
I did not go on to read the companion books, so I look forward to your reviews.