Nevertheless, she takes off, hoping to find him. But he disappears before she can effect a plan. She's driven to find her child and hopes to escape with him. But one mistake is made: The community doesn't restart her on the pills given to all the nonvessels to make them impotent and passionless. When her 'product' (child) has to be delivered by caesarian section, she's considered a failure and is reasssigned to work in the fish hatchery. She's not thrilled with the idea and doesn't really understand what it's all about. As a young girl, Claire's selected to be a 'vessel' - to bear children for the community. All are heroic quests of different sorts that deal with similar themes of an unlikely hero confronting or escaping evil. The Son begins as Claire's story, then interweaves with the stories of Jonas, Kira, and Matt (of the previous three books in the quartet), and ends as her son Gabe's story. Shame on you! There is no exact button for sick and disturbing so I will push all the negative ones. This book shouldn't be in elementary school where my daughter found it! Change the age recommendations of this book. What is the benefit of this? Good read, I think NOT. Do I want my 11 year old to be thinking about being inseminated over and over again in a controlled society at the age of 12? No. This is not the type of sick fiction children should be reading, fiction should entice young minds to be better people, make a difference and be KIDS. Well No freaking thank you! I don't want my daughter reading this junk. Not only is she 12! but did I forget to mention that they blind fold her and tie her to the bed? by the way in this particular moment when this is unfolding she is now 14 and giving birth to baby no. Needless to say she stopped reading it, turns out that the first chapter goes into, yet again another controlled society where this 12 year old has the pleasure to be given the job as a birth mother, who births children. My daughter brought home this book, it caught my attention when she said she was confused as to what insemination was. Don't let you 11 year old read this as it states this is the recommended age.

The giver the son