Uglies #6

Finally, the plot has become more exciting and less predictable. Throughout the entire book, I really thought that Zane, Tally's boyfriend, would become a Special along with Tally. Because of Zane's brain damage, which happened in the second book because of a cure for the lesions gone wrong, he had poor motor skills. Tally though that if she could make Zane seem like a rebel, a trait which the Specials all posses, the Special committee would turn him into a Special as well and cure his brain damage. To make Zane seem like a rebel, Tally broke into the town's armory and lead Zane, along with some other Pretties, to the New Smoke. Her plan was to then call the Specials and say that Zane broke into the armory and found the Smoke all by himself. This plan was not so great to begin with, but it turned disastrous. The specials thought that the neighboring town, where the smoke coincidentally was, had attacked their armory and declared war. The smoke was attacked with the strongest weapons that the specials had, destroying the city. Zane had been in the hospital when this had happened, while the doctors searched for a cure for him. The doctors were forced to evacuate the building and left Zane behind, where, without the attendance of the doctors, he lost all of his cognition. The doctors had to then, when they returned, take Zane off of life support in order to use the machines for other patients. This is a great ending to the book because it was literally the last thing I was expecting to happen. Based on the previous book's predictability, I assumed this book would end with a similar ending, one where Zane and Tally lived happily ever after as super-human crime fighters. Zane's death sort of saved the book from being boring, even though it was sad.