Sometimes Tally still remembers the days when she was fifteen; spending her boring days outsmarting the city's technology while waiting for the big surgery to make her pretty. Now, Tally has gone beyond that. She's been turned into an exclusive Special, her reflexes set to extreme. She's been under the knife with her Special friends so many times that it's just her brain left that's really hers. Then, in a bout of clear-headedness, Tally decides to get her former boyfriend Zane, the last one of her friends still just pretty, to turn Special. But what she doesn't realize is the uproar she causes when her plan goes horribly wrong. As Tally escapes and takes refuge in a free-thinking city very unlike her own, the professional Specials are ready to track her down. Again.Let's wrap up the Uglies trilogy (plus an "Extra" book!) right now with Specials. Thankfully this was not as repetitive as the previous two books, but you can kind of tell how the plot is slightly based on the one used in Uglies. I know, I'm being so nitpicky about that. Well. We have some of the usual series wrap-up elements, including a very sneaky character mindset change, and a cliffhanger that leaves a lot to be answered. There aren't many new characters to ponder here, but all the old ones debuting on the other two books develop a new side to them. Overall, if the Uglies and Pretties ranked high on your favorite books list, you pretty much have to read this exciting yet somewhat similar conclusion.
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