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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9781416951179
ISBN number: 1416951172
Label: Simon Pulse
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: October 02, 2007
Publishing house: Simon Pulse
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: October 02, 2007
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Fame
It's a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. 'Tech-heads' flaunt their latest gadgets, 'kickers' spread gossip and trends, and 'surge monkeys' are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. And it's all monitored on a bazillion different cameras. The world is like a gigantic game of American Idol. Whoever is getting the most buzz gets the most votes. Popularity rules.
As if being fifteen doesn't suck enough, Aya Fuse's rank of 451,369 is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. But Aya doesn't care; she just wants to lie low with her drone, Moggle. And maybe kick a good story for herself.
Then Aya meets a clique of girls who pull crazy tricks, yet are deeply secretive of it. Aya wants desperately to kick their story, to show everyone how intensely cool the Sly Girls are. But doing so would propel her out of extra-land and into the world of fame, celebrity...and extreme danger. A world she's not prepared for.
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Just as well written and adventure filled as the very first three, Extras takes place a few years after the trilogy, and takes place in Japan in the new post-syrgery world. In this new world everyone has a video camera on them all the time, and popularity is ranked down to the last person. Looking for glory, our heroine finds a bit more than she bargained for, throwing her into Tally Youngblood's world.
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Extras was a fanatastic book, and produced quite a few surprises. First of all, i was expecting the book to be in the point of view of Tally Youngblood, but it was featuring Aya Fuse, a young girl with no popularity, which basically dictates your life in the world after the mind rain. She struggles to find some way to make herself famous. (though many people complain that she was too obsessed with fame, how many of us can say we wouldn't if sucess was based on your rank?)
Aya discovered a group of girls that will do crazy stunts for fun, all in secret. When Aya is about to burst and tell, she discovers something even more frightening, a group of missiles, that could launch metal at cities and make humans go extinct. With her older brother, and a famous boy who is sweet on her, she travels around with Tally Youngblood, trying to solve a mystery which might just threaten the world.
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If you're looking for something like Uglies this isn't it. I felt as though it had written by a different author!
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the few objections to the book i have is this:
1.aya can be very annoying. she is obsessed with fame in a way that wildly surpasses tally's obsession with being a "pretty" in the book uglies.
2.aya is simply not as interesting a character as tally, or even shay. i would have enjoyed a book more that was about tally and more tally. she has developed, struggled, failed, and won, and she is a really fascinating character in this book. i wanted to know what was going on in her head.
3.now that i think about it, this book does have a pretty boring ending, but it wasn't bad or anything. the whole book was so confusing and unexpected that it was a bit of a relief for things to go back to normal(as normal as they can be in aya's world.
4.i didn't love the characters. the books before? i loved them. they fascinated and frustrated me to no end. the ones i didn't love in the former books were still pretty cool to watch. this book left me still loving the older charasters, but not the new ones. i didn't hate them, but they weren't as powerful.
my commendations:
1.it was kinda interesting to see tally and shay and david from the outside. tally is a lot more insane then i realized.
2.plot was cool, in some ways. the adventuresome girls in this novel that aya plans to publish are pretty darn cool.
3.i've already said it partially, but the parts with tally in them are still the most interesting.
so it kinda was cool, but it didn't spellbind me. don't get me wrong, most readers will be so dazzled they will LOVE it at first, like i did. and it was a good book. i don't think you should avoid all "add-ons", especially not this one. it won't screw up tally's story (and make you wanna forget you read it beacause it ended wrong like some last books in series). read it, like it, and then go reread pretties or uglies so you can make up for the lack of true character struggle or characters that you care enough about to wait through their struggle.
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Pros: An original, believable concept, great characters.
Cons: Ending is a bit of a let down.
I was a bit reluctant to read this book, as I thought that Westerfield's last attempt, Specials, was the weakest in the series. Nevertheless, I am a fan of the series in general and when I saw this book in Borders, I had to pick it up. I was not disappointed.
Aya, a fifteen-year-old living in a society with a reputation based economic system, makes a more interesting protagonist than Tally Youngblood. Her curiosity, independence, and ambition drive the story along much better than Tally's initial wishy-washiness in Uglies. Aya's cohorts Ren and Hiro are also very well done and I am left with the impression that the weakest characters in the whole thing are the ones who from the previous books who show up in the last few chapters.
The story concept is just as original and fascinating as Uglies, if not more. In a world where people are constantly checking their internet popularity, Aya's world which tracks the number of times a person's name is spoken and gives extra goods and services to those with a high number seems eerily familiar and yet remote enough to make an good fantastical concept. The only flaw in the way that Aya's city is presented is that I find it hard to believe that the system would work so seamlessly only a few years after the end of the "pretty" system.
I would conclude that Extras is altogether the best book in the series, but I do have to say that the ending is comparatively weak. The middle is good -- we build up from Aya wanting to be famous to Aya uncovering a conspiracy -- but the ending is a bit anticlimactic. I won't say more for fear of spoiling the book.
Still, Extras is a well written Young Adult novel, with a great premise, complex characters, and page turning suspense. Five stars.
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