Specials by Scott Westerfeld

Specials, the third book in The Uglies series is about a new young group of Specials called The Cutters.  Their job in maintaining city order is to patrol for Uglies and Pretties exchanging the brain lesion cure and to ultimately discover The New Smoke (the source of the cure) and stop it.  It turns out that The Smoke is even bigger than The Cutters imagined and they unintentionally start a war between The Smoke and their home city.

This book was a bit more predictable than the previous two and a bit more ridiculous.  The Cutters are made out to be very strange in appearance and have most of the traits of a superhero.  I would love to see what Westerfeld envisioned when he created this breed of post-operative humans.

Recommended you read the previous two

Would I read it again? No

Recommended Food: anything but spag bowl

Now reading: The Lord of the Rings, Two Towers by Tolkein

Now reading:  Factory Girls by Leslie Chang