Specials by Scott Westerfeld

This, the last book in the trilogy, I read in less than 10 hours. Both Uglies and Pretties had problems with slow starting. Specials doesn't have this problem. It starts right in the middle of action and just catapults on through.

Specials provides a satisfying ending to Tally's story and somehow manages to avoid most of the boy drama in a way that doesn't seem artificial. There is plenty of room for the world to expand for more stories and I hope that Westerfeld writes more in this setting.

As far as YA lit goes, I can't decide home much I like it. On the one hand the idea of beauty and visual appeal is something important for teens to think about, on the other I'm not sure whether the series really has much to say about it in the end. So maybe they are just books. 

Nothing wrong with that, I suppose.