Specials

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

The third installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.

Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she’s one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.

But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn’t better than anything she’s ever known. Tally still has memories of something else.

Still, it’s easy to tune that out—until she’s 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 she’s programmed to complete. Either way, Tally’s world will never be the same.

BEST BOOK SERIES EVER

The ending was wonderful. I think, unlike most book series, the ending tied off most if not all loose ends and really gave us that feel that the story really is over. Of course I will always miss our girl Tally and our boy David. Brilliantly made main characters that will stay with me fir a long time.

A YA classic

This was a great book when I first read it in 2007, and it has held up. I would recommend this book to any YA reader in 2024.

Still a good series, not sure about the ending

The author did a great job making you feel the details of being a Special. His hatred for our society taints this book and I'm not sure I feel about Tally becoming an ecoterroritst at the end (perhaps it's my assumption). Overall though, it's an interesting book that makes you think.

Sooooo good!!!

Ughhh this series really was so good! The story line is very interesting and the characters are inviting and Tally is being thrown around in all these different situations and she’s only 16! Im happy I ran across this series.

Better still

It seems this series just keeps getting better with each book. On to the fourth and final book in this series.