Now there's a new story with a new city set three years after the events in the previous books. It's one of the more bizarre social set ups. After populace got their minds and awareness back they, of course, needed an economy. According to Westerfeld's world building, each city came up with it's own economy. Extras is set in Japan (the first three were in North America, probably California-ish) and the economy is based off of fame or reputation. So the more recognized you are the more wealthy you are. Like I said, weird.
The main character, Aya, is engaging if a little whiny and obvious. I really like Frizz, her boyfriend. Tally et al. eventually show up.
So, I guess I'm not as annoyed about it as I want to be. However, I'm a little leery of series that just expand and expand and expand past any sort of cohesive plot. The only authors that I've ever read that truly did it well are Mercedes Lackey and Anne McCaffrey. Both of the them developed a world level plot line for continuity and character level plot lines for story and then switched between sets of characters for sense of completeness. Westerfeld could be headed in that direction. Time will tell.
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