Gathering Blue Chapters Twenty-One, Twenty-Two, and Twenty-Three

                               Although chapters twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-three has lots of surprises and action, which I always enjoy in books, I didn't really like them because of the ending. I feel as though it's become very expected of Lois Lowry to have very short, not very well written endings. I really don't have a problem with cliff hangers at the end of a book as long as there is a sequel. I feel as though, even a book is part of a series, it should have a beginning, middle, and an end. Gathering Blue has an awesome beginning and a really interesting middle but the ending was a bit of a let down. The whole book was a climax leading right up to that one moment and just you thought the thing you had been waiting for the entire book was about to happen... You ran out of things to read because the book ended. Other than than the rather disappointing ending I liked chapters twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-three. They were really interesting but I felt like parts become slightly random. Like when all of a sudden Kira's dad, Christopher, became a huge part of the book, I was a little bit confused.  I think they should have added more stories and have Kira care a bit more about Christopher than she seemed too. He brought blue, proved my prediction about Jamison correct, knew the truth about the beasts, and he lives in a village that is almost the exact opposite of Kira's village. All of those things are very important parts of the story and I didn't think it was very good to have a character who is mentioned maybe twice, before the ending, play such a huge role in the final three chapters. Another thing I wasn't crazy about the,"Because why?" part. It could have been really cool but it got kind of repetitive and slightly dull when it could have been really dramatic and cool. I really did like the story over all an the concept of the book though. So, I would give the last chapters three out of five stars.