Extras

Here is the final book in the Uglies series...

  Extras,by Scott Westerfeld

Rating:Five Stars 

    It's been 5 years after Tally Youngblood brought down new Pretty Town and it's secret. A whole new world has formed. Everyone is ranked and has a place in society. This rank is based of your feed,the new type of social media. People have TVs,and each channel is a person. You have a hovercam that follows you around,and you can record everything you do,to feeding your cat to going to parties on the cam. The #1 most popular person is Tally,and she doesn't even live in the cities,but in the woods,fighting off people who want to start cutting down trees. There are 4 types of people in this world. Surge Monkeys, who go through radical altering surgeries to get views. Kickers,who record other people and talk about them.Tech Heads,people who invent great new things. Extras,who are in the background. They are unpopular,and have low face ranks. Aya is an Extra,with a sad face rank of 451,369. She's trying to hit fame as a kicker,but nobody really watches. One night,Aya meets a group of girls that have found a way to ride 200 mph trains. They keep their face ranks low on purpose. If Aya kicks this story,she'll be a legend. But there are some complications. She must find a way to capture a video secretly. And right when things,can't get better,they go so bad Tally herself makes her way to find Aya. 

       Scott sure has a lot of worlds in his head! This was so interesting,and the face rank system isn't bad or hiding something,but rather a creative lifestyle. There were plot twists that were super unimaginable,and kept me glued to the book. The face rank confused me at first,because I thought the higher the number,the more popular. That's not the case. But this was a great book,and I am sad this is the last of the series. Read this book if you like:social media,hate pollution,animé,and radical honesty(read the book to find out)!