By Scott Westerfeld
*****
I finally finished the book Specials, which means I'm done with the Uglies triology (yay for that)! Anyways, I thought the book was really good. Looks like Mr.Westerfeld spent some time writing for that, because I could see that the book was as good as the first one, or even better.
Now this book is about Tally actually turning into a special. Not just a normal special, she is in some kind of organization called 'Cutters'. Cutters have the people who had escaped the city without getting detected all the way to Smoke, which is also like special force in the whole special group. But there is one big problem standing ahead of Cutters; the smokies have already built the New Smoke, after the previous Smoke that got subverted by Dr.Cable. These Smokies aren't the ones that Tally knew in the old days; they have all kinds of gears from the city, and they are always ready to go for an ambush. The Cutters will have to figure a way to destroy this city.
My best part of this book is when the Smokies ambushed Tally and Shay. There seemed to be a lot of smokies around because there were a mass of arrows shooting through the air like a bullet, but Tally's special infrared vision could'nt detect them. Thats when Tally and Shay figured that the Smokies had sneak suits on, which are special armor that turnes the user's body tempreture and the figure itself blend into the background. As soon as they worked that out, they turned off the infrared view and turned on the skintenna network to get help from the other cutters (skintenna network is like ummm... it's sort of like MSN connecting to the others that lets the user to talk to the other special but this one it can only be used by specials in their minds). Of course, it wasn't hard to dodge their wild arrows. After all, Tally and Shay were specials. Their super fast reflexes and their clear eye vision was more than enough to dodge them. However, despite of their abilities, one of them I mean David had a electrical stunner and shocked Shay into unconciousness. Smokies just had kidnapped the boss of the cutters.
I want to recommend this book to you if you have finished the following two books; Uglies and Pretties. This is because if you start reading specials right away you won't even get what the heck is going on and be perplexed. However, if you have met all the conditions to read this book, it just might be the perfect book for you to read.
4 comments:
I CANT make the spaces between paragraphs!!! >0< so frustrated T.T
I'm sorry you're frustrated by not getting the form the way you want it. I agree with you on this. I'd be working hard for it as well. Have you thought of the way you did your author page, because that seems to work very well.
Yong Hee, I liked one of your comments about having to have read the first two books in order to get the third one. I haven't read the first two, and I didn't even get most of what you were talking about in the review of Specials! :-)
You are finished with the series, anyway, and now can be released from SW's spell to start new books. Good job on these three.
Yong Hee, from your book review and from your author interviewing movie, this book does sound interesting. I've heard that Scott Westerfield is a really good author. I think I might want to have a go on this book someday. Nice job YONG HEE!!!
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