Specials

This book was no masterpiece but that doesn't mean I didn't really enjoy it. I love young adult dystopian novels like these. Volume 3, like the other two was fast paced and suspenseful, a real page turner! My favorite thing about the “Uglies” series is the transformations the main character goes through in each novel. It's a rare experience for me to read a book where the protagonist is one of the “bad guys”. The whole time you read Pretties and Specials you know Tally is only being controlled by artificial thoughts and emotions. It's pretty creepy how easily you can become one with the enemy in the “Uglies” universe. It has sort of a Invasion of the Body Snatchers or zombie apocalypse feeling.

The ending felt a little sappy and rushed but then endings are rarely satisfying in young adult books. I didn't particularly like the environmental message yet still thought the idea of David and Tally becoming the new “Special Circumstances” was clever. I have no idea what will happen in the extra volume but I hope it's a worthwhile read. I also hope Tally grows to like David but not too quickly because hey, Zane JUST died.