![]() ![]() ![]() Then a final flurry of action to wrap up some of the story lines and set up the plot of the next book. Then, all of a sudden, action, action, action, action. To be fair, this was where Westerfeld painted his background and laid the world-building groundwork for the rest of the novel, but these sections still went by very, very slowly. Tally and Shay worked for the Specials hunting the New Smoke, then Tally tailed some Crims down the coast for a REALLY LONG TIME. Tally sat around, hung over, and Shay got her into the Crim clique in New Pretty Town. ![]() ![]() Tally sat around and sulked in Uglyville and Shay taught her to ride a hoverboard. There were large swaths of chapters in each book in which very little happened. These problems were by no means enough to cause me to put the books down, but I felt they should be noted.įirst, the pacing of all four novels was a bit uneven. There were a couple of things that, for me, could have been improved, or took away from the story at large. While, as I mentioned in my previous post, I really enjoyed the Uglies series, that does not mean that the books are perfect. Also, be forewarned, spoilers for the series abound. This is the second part of my review of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series. ![]()
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