Specials

The book “Specials” is set in the far future, after our race has been destroyed, these people live on and try to create a “better” world. In the book, Tally has become a special, along with her best-friend Shay. A special is like a “super-human.” Now instead of trying to stay bubbly, they try to stay icy. Their assignment is to stop the Smokies from giving out pills that take the “pretty” lesions out of a bubble-head’s brain, and stop the Pretties from escaping to the New Smoke. When they crash a ugly party, they learn that the situation is far worse than they thought. Smokies had already given out thousands of pills, and that meant that thousands of pretties already had minds of their own. Then Tally and Shay are amushed by Smokies, and Fausto (one of Tally and Shay’s team-members) is taken hostage.
Tally and Shay go to visit their friend Zane, who is stuck in pretty town. In order to rescue him, they have to break in to the building that holds all of the City’s army machinery and tools. While breaking in, they end up destorying most of the building weapons (by releasing “hunger” in nano form, it eats everything and also makes more of it self at every passing moment), and escape with their lives by a thread. Zane escapes, with some of his new friends, and together they all travel to the New Smoke, for Tally and Shay, because they want to destroy it, and for Zane, because he wants to live there in freedom. Tally has to decide if she should listen to the voice inside her head, or if she should do what she’s programmed to do. After that many things happen, including betrayal, doublecrossing, destruction, death, and an unexpected ending.
I really like this book! It is the 3rd in it’s series, the first two are called, “Uglies” and “Pretties.” There is also a fourth book after it, and it’s called “Extras.” Specials is an excellent book because it hooks you in right away, and keeps you feeling like you know what is going to happen, even though you really don’t!
-Natalie