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Tally has been turned into a member of Special Circumstances, and together with her pal Shay, “The Cutters” are on a mission to keep Uglies down and Pretties dumb, and of course, get rid of the rebellious Smoke. But Tally can’t forget about her boyfriend left behind, Zane, who still has brain damage. Tally and Shay try to concoct a plan to get Zane turned into a Special, but when their plan goes way out of control, it is up to Tally to decide whether to stay on her programmed mission, or to live
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Downhill from the first two, sadly -- this one really felt like a teen-angst drama and nothing more. Maybe Westerfeld has me so used to the idea that they live in this dystopic future that it seems commonplace, but I really think he's losing something fundamental as the series goes on. I feel like he is telling rather than showing how Tally is so special. (Speaking of, some of his vocabulary repetition -- "special," "icy," "bubbly" -- started driving me insane in this volume.)
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I was a little disappointed by the final installment in the Uglies Trilogy. [There's now a 4th book in the series, Extras, but Westerfeld wrote the books intending them to be a trilogy, so I'm not counting afterthought Extras right now, even though I'll probably read it.] This book didn't break much new ground, and it was tiring watching Tally go through the same dilemmas she faced in the first two books. I didn't start to get into this book until about 1/3 of the way through, where there are a
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I can't say I was pleased with this book. After the previous volume, in which varied themes and Tally's world are given more depth, I expected that to continue in this one, which unfortunately didn't happen. This book is all action with Tally becoming one of the "baddies", which could be interesting but it ends up being pretty boring. I didn't identify myself so much with the character and her inner struggle wasn't that interest to me as well, since it doesn't seem to lead anywhere. While we see
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This third book in the Uglies trilogy (which is now a quartet, actually) gives a strong ending after what I felt was a weak middle volume (Pretties). In the series, people are born "ugly" but undergo corrective surgery to make them "pretty" as teenagers. Our heroine Tally tries to run away and join a community of unmodified people in the woods, but is brought back to the city and given the surgery to become pretty. In Specials, she's been given the punishment-cum-reward of being modified into a
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SHIT GOT REAL.
I had my doubts in the middle of book two of the series, and more so at the beginning of this third and "final" volume. By the end, however, I was completely won over. These are very smart little books- I recommend them highly to the YA market and to adults willing to put up with a little more silliness than the average scifi/environmentalist fiction.
It's like Stephenson's Zodiac, for the tween market. Or more like Gibson- Inventive, but very relateable. ...more
It's like Stephenson's Zodiac, for the tween market. Or more like Gibson- Inventive, but very relateable. ...more
Now I have to track down Extras.
Really nice end to the trilogy (of course, now I have to read "Extras"). I hadn't expected the direction he took the world in this (I won't expound for fear of spoilers), and I liked it. And he definitely didn't pull any punches in the emotional department. I'll admit it - I cried a bit.
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Okay, I loved this series. I can't believe how much I enjoyed it. This last book took a turn I really didn't expect, and it had kind of a token ending, but it was still definitely worth reading.
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I enjoyed this book, and I really liked the ending to the trilogy. Well done.
Jan 01, 2009
Allison
marked it as to-read
Jun 14, 2009
Isabel
marked it as to-read
May 17, 2011
Mary
marked it as to-read
