Specials
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Specials is an awesome ending to the Uglies trilogy. In it Tally Youngblood is learning to be a Special in the special circumstances unit. A Special is a person who gets a surgery akind of super human, their eyesight is amazing, their hearing is better than a "hawk's". The features of a special is different too. Their eyes are decribed as wolf-like, their skin is flawless, and the sound of their voice is changed. The author describes their voices as sharp. The special is also equipped with razor sharp nails and teeth as well as superior musculature. People who have seen Specials are generally scared or creeped out. This particular group that Tally is in is called the cutters (they are special specials) their job is too keep the "cure" from coming to the city, to keep an eye on the smokies, and keep the amount of runaways to a minumum. Tally is not alone her friends are right by her side. Untill the "cure" gets a hold of the other cutters.
i really liked this book, and the author.The book was so detailed it was like a movie playing in my head.
Okay so just like uglies and pretties this book was super good!! But i didnt really like the fact that she was forced to be one! but in the end it made it good!! and i was very scared when she was trying to catch the smokies! i couldnt tell if i wanted her to catch them and turn them or if i wanted them to get away...hahaha but i was happy that she didnt get them. They were so smart in their ambushes tho! and i loved when her and shay whent into the armory and caused all that damage! haha then they thought it was diego starting a war! very very good book! i am now on extras. We'll see how it goes!
When last we saw our heroine, Tally Youngblood, she had already been through a number of changes. Classified as an Ugly -- like all pre-sixteen year olds -- she had wanted nothing more than to have the surgery that all kids got on their sixteenth birthday; the surgery that would make her a Pretty.
And then she got the operation, and all that came with being pretty: the symmetrical face; the flawless skin; the rounded eyes; the fuller lips; the brain lesions.
Yes, brain lesions. Scars in the brain tissue that keep all the Pretties "pretty-minded bubbleheads", not thinking too hard about anything, happy to go along with the rules. Pliable. It's a utopia for all -- the citizens, and the city government as well, run behind the scenes by a third over-class of citizens: Special Circumstances. One wouldn't think that the government would intentionally perform brain surgery on all its citizens. It's one out of many visions of Westerfeld that could be considered the most outlandish -- until I saw the CDC reports linking vaccine Thimerosal to outbreaks of autism.
Tally enters prettyhood knowing full well the dangers and risks; but going in, she also knew her friend David, a boy born outside the city, would smuggle in the cure for her. But once she was pretty, she wasn't sure she wanted the cure, and so when the two pills arrived she shared them with her new boyfriend, Zane. The results weren't good. The two pills were a cocktail -- one was a mix of nanos designed to eat away at the brain lesions; the other, a harmless chemical designed to stop the nanos. Zane got the first one. Together, they both became bubbly -- clear-thinking. But the nanos continued to eat away at Zane's brain, damaging him. Tally's clear-headedness had nothing to do with the pills at all -- she had thought her own way out of prettyheadedness.
Now, after having been captured by her former best friend Shay and taken to Special Circumstances, Tally has been remade yet again. Her muscles tissue has been replaced with artificial polymers, her bones with ceramics, and computer circuitry runs beneath it all. She's stronger and faster. Her reflexes are superhuman. And she finally sees why the Specials are in the right. As a member of Shay's special subsect of Specials, the Cutters (named because they like to literally cut themselves to experience the high of brain chemicals the activity induces), she again runs into Zane, who was also captured at the end of Pretties but who is still pretty-minded -- and still damaged
-- Robert Louis StevensonÂ
This book is about Tally Youngblood being Special. She has the choice to destroy her old home, the Smoke. The Smoke has joined another city, making it stronger than ever. She wants to make her people happy, but she cannot betray her old friend. She faces many challenges and things that destroy her.
This book is the third book in the "Uglies" series. I have read all four books and I like this book the most. It is extremely wonderful and just plain amazing! This book is full of sadness and happiness. No matter how much you read, you cannot place it down!
As an endin to the series, it wasn't a let down. It had my crying in some parts, and gave a good outcome. Who dies,what happens to Dr. Cable, and everything else is answered and well, all around, its a good ending to a exellent series and deserves to be read. The only downfall to it though is the ending. When Tally ends up going with David, and with Zane well, not there anymore, its kinda dissapointing and could have been better, but still exellent
Still a great book...After Uglies and Pretties witch you just could'nt stop reading, Specials just keeps getting better.
Specials is more dark than the to first books. Tally has been taken by the special circumstances and has been transformes once more. She beacomes a dark weapon and fights for the city, witch she always was againts!!! After being attact by the Smokies (her old friends) one of her partner's taken. She must bring him back, but along the way things doesn't turn the way she wished. She discovers something big, an other city...
Specials is verry exciting, a war between to city, a war within Tally, etc...Her world will never be the same...
Still a book verry easy to read, verry exciting and alot of dark action.
Read it!!!
Kath
The Uglies series never slows, which reoccurs in Specials. It's so frusturating to watch Tally finally get a grasp of her own thinking, only to see her thrown back into a new surgery that changes her yet again. But I think that is what makes Specials so addicting. Just when I start to think I can predict what will happen, everything changes.
Specials is just as adventurous as the others, maybe even more-so now that Tally is practically a superhuman. I felt that this book spent more time describing the mental games and processes within Tally than the others. Instead of focusing primarily on events and the grand scheme of things, Specials spent time describing everything from Tally's perspective, the mastermind behind everything.
To me, Specials is the most detailed and well thought out of the series, and made me extremely hungry for the next book, Extras.
Loved it of course! 4/5
Special Circumstances. The words have sent chills down Tall's spine since her days as a repellent,, rebellious ugly. Back then the Specials were a sinister rumor, frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breath-takingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally has never been ordinary.
And now she has been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.
Still, it is easy to tune that out-until Tally is offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission that she is programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
In this exciting conclusion to Scott Westerfeld's trilogy, Tally must face one of the biggest desicions of her life. In this well-written, thought rovoking, and engrossing futuristic trilogy, he has built a masterfully complex and vivid civilizatilon.
The entire trilogy is brilliant. Specials, the final book, is the best of all.
Tally is superstrong, superfast, supersmart, superbeautiful, superpriveledged... and yet something's missing. Why is her mind not icy-clear like the other Specials'? Why is it that when she's ordered to hunt down David like an animal, destroy her once-home the Smoke, and abandon Zane, she's conflicted?
While Uglies was great, Pretties interesting but somewhat superficial, Specials is absorbing, deep, and absolutely brilliant. It has the top spot on my bookshelf and I recommend it to everyone!
Liek the title said, i loved the book, better then the first 2, but sad to say the ending i didn't like.
I didn't liek taht Zane got worse, that he was crippled, that he ending up dying. That was wrong, and the author messed up big time with that.
If one of Tally's ex boyfriends had to die, why coudln't david? He was a useless Ugly. But that is my opinion.
The thing i loved the most, was the journey to the new smoke, i was surprised it was an actually village. Great twists, and really developed charactors.
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