Specials(SS)

review by Student's Name (Your first name and last initial are fine.)
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Write a paragraph or two about the exposition and conflict of your book, which should include some pieces of rising action. Do **not** give away the climax or resolution.

Next is a paragraph saying if you recommend the book or not and explaining why. You will obviously write more than this.

**__Specials__,** Scott Westerfeld Review by Sydney Smith This story takes place in the city of Diego, Pretty town and the forests around the cities. The characters are Tally, Shay, Zane, Dr. Cable, David, the cutters and the smokies. Tally, Shay and the cutters are specials, a dangerous fighting group used for protecting Pretty town from outsiders. They work for Dr. Cable, the head special. They are trying to get David and the smokies to become Pretties and join their city instead of living in Diego and also to stop them from making city children run away with them across the dangerous wilderness to get to Diego. Also Tally’s boyfriend, Zane, wants to become a smokie and live in Diego with the others, but if he does Tally will have to fight against him. Tally has internal conflict when she has to decide if she should do what she believes in, or carry out the mission she is programmed to do. Zane also has internal conflict when he tries to heal himself from the brain nanos. There are many examples of external conflict in the book. Some examples are, when Tally and the cutters are fighting David and the smokies, when Shay and Tally have to escape from the hunger nano and the old rusty machines in the armory. Also when Fausto, one of the cutters, was trying to cure Tally he had to fight her, then when all the cutters are trying to make Tally calm down they have to use their force, and finally when Tally was trying to escape from Dr. Cable and the other specials she had to fight her way out. I would recommend this book to people age 12 and older because it has a lot of violence and some romance as well. This is a good book for those readers who love action, because every page is full of adventure and excitement. I would suggest reading the first two books in the series, __Uglies__ and __Pretties__, before reading __Specials__ because it will make it much easier to understand all the fighting and some of the history of the conversations in the book. This book was my favorite in the series because of its great climax and its amazing rising action. Also the resolution was a cliffhanger which makes you want to read the fourth book, __Extras__ to find out what happens to the characters in the cities. All in all I think __Specials__ was a great book and I would highly recommend it.

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