Specials - Scott Westerfeld

Title: Specials Author: Scott Westerfeld Genre: YA, Dystopian Rating: 8/10 # pages: 372 Date read: March, 2008

Summary: The Specials used to be a sinister rumour - frightening beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast.

Now tally's become one of them: a sumeramped fighting machine, engineered to keep Uglies down and Pretties stupid. The strength, the speed and the clarity of her new powers feel amazing... most of the time. One tiny corner of Tally's heart still remembers something different.

When she's offered the chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke, she is forced to make one last choice: carry out the mission, or listen to that faint yet persistent heartbeat telling her that something's wrong...

Review: While the first was definitely the best book in the trilogy, I thought this was a very fitting ending to it (I know there's also Extras, but as far as I know that's not a part of the series as such, but more a different series in the same universe).

However, the two last books were a bit of a let-down after the roller-coaster ride of the first one. Don't get me wrong, I loved the books and read them in no time flat, but it seemed a bit like Scott had a great idea but then didn't quite know what to do with it. All books followed more or less the same pattern, making the previous book seem, for want of better word, pointless.

That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy them though, and I'll definitely be getting Extras out of the library as soon as they get it.

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