It's a pity we don't see this happening right from the start with this third book. It would have been a shock to see her become a Special - one of the horrid, vulpine Gestapo-type agents - and to go from there to seeing her taking control of her own choices in life, including appearance, and possibly putting her city-state to rights. I assume, at least, however quickly they all came out, that there was a time when we didn't know before we started that the title of the books were the status of Tally. I wish I had been in at the start with this series. The bad news is that her ugliness is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, Tally. She is going to a party, looking ugly, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is of most importance. After a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society norm. In the un-named city of the future, all the adults are living in the delusion that their city is right. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Books Summary: Not quite on a par with the others, but this series closer will be essential reading for many, and won't exactly disappoint.
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