Specials by Jennifer Nielsen (author)

Frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Specials are what every ordinary Pretty fears most. But Tally’s never been ordinary. And now she’s Special too. Tally’s become a fighting machine, engineered to keep the Uglies down and the Pretties stupid. The strength, speed and clarity of her thinking feel better than anything she can recall. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still knows something more. Still, it’s easy to tune that out – until Tally is ordered to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke forever. Her killing powers are primed to go. Unless she listens to that faint heartbeat of doubt.