Extras ~ Scott Westerfeld (Uglies #4)

★★★☆☆

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

Wow, this was kind of a big disappointment.

Honestly, the first half before Tally showed up was way better. Speshul Tally was Extra Speshul Tally sometimes and it really dragged down the story with her angry sanctimoniousness. Aya, besides that, was quite annoying most of the time, and I feel like very few people actually learned any real lessons and changed in any real, deep way; other than being perhaps a bit less fame-seeking.[Except that they all were famous by the end! So none of it really mattered anyway! And the whole, ~it was all just a big misunderstanding~ was way too much like those crappy Scooby Doo episodes where the bad guy wasn't evil and no one goes to jail at the end (I hated those episodes so much). Also, um, I'm sorry but stealing metal internationally doesn't seem like something that everyone would just forget about and be like, "oh no worries! you're going to space! it's totally okay for you to steal all our metal!" Also, I mean, come on. Extra-terrestrials? Really, Scott Westerfeld? That was the best you could come up with? (hide spoiler)]

I was pleasantly surprised with the lack of a love triangle, though. But that doesn't make up for the overall clicheness and cringiness of the love story that existed.

Man, Scott, I'm counting on you to not mess up Impostors.

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