Mini Reviews ft. Opposition and Gathering Blue

Here's a couple more mini reviews for today.  I was hoping to have a third by now, but I haven't read anything new in time!

★★★★☆ Could You Just Stop Kissing For A Minute?

Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout This was a great finale to a great series.  I loved the pacing in this novel compared to the others - it seemed to go a lot faster, and a lot more seemed to happen.  I was mostly happy with the way it ended, but I did have some issues - (highlight for spoiler:) I get that the Lux books are more about what happens to the characters rather than the world in general, but really, I wanted more detail about how the world was affected.  Also, I was really sad that Dee didn't seem to be as present in the novel.  I feel like she disappeared after the events of Onyx. You already know the other main thing that I had problems with if you've read the caption on the picture.  Often it just felt like the most inappropriate of times for them to be doing what they were doing... I got attached to a lot of the newer characters in this novel, which was a plus.  As mentioned before, overall I was pretty happy with it!

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry  I'm glad I had been forewarned that this was a companion to The Giver and not strictly a sequel, otherwise I would have been pretty angry about this book!  I still am, a little.  Because though I got very few answers, I got so many, many more questions.  I liked the characters in this book more than in The Giver, but I found this one more predictable - though that didn't really take away from it - and a little slower.  Though I liked her, sometimes I wanted to shake Kira, the main character, because she just wasn't catching on to some things (though I have a suspicion that she knew what was going on but couldn't admit it to herself).  I liked Thomas and Matt too.  Again, I was left with an ultimately unsatisfying ending, and I am dying for Messenger, the third companion novel.

★★★★☆ But WHY?

Have you read either of these?  Do you know if I will find closure in Messenger and Son, or if I will be eternally frustrated?