Specials

I loved this whole series. This one really finishes everything off in such an unexpected way. It's not the last book in the series, but it finishes the events that have been happening. So good! A must-read series!

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?Tally Youngblood lives in a society where they're given the "mandatory opportunity"to become pretty once they reach a certain age. Through their surgery they become abs......more

One thing I've noticed about Westerfeld's novels is how bittersweet the endings are. Although there is still a rainbow (or fireworks) to brighten the blow, there is still death, failure, destruction. Westerfeld knows life will never have a happy ending, just a bittersweet one. Specials is no exceptio......more

2.5⭐️ The only thing drier than a cracker is Tally’s personality………......more

I have ambivalent feelings about this book. It's fatally flawed in my opinion, both in tone and content. The tone is adolescent hyper-drama.... which is okay I suppose since it's written for a teen audience. But, as an example of literature, it falls flat and since my interest in YA lit is exclusive......more

I have only commented on Goodreads on a couple of books I've read, but this one really bothered me. (I still liked it enough to not stop reading, hence the three stars.) By the time I finished all three, I felt I had been lectured to and virtually yelled at about how awful a people we currently are......more