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Moreover it hits on many things the young women of its audience should be willing to look at - the cosmetic side of their world, where looks are everything - makeup maketh not the man, one might say. Here there are references to a future ridden with eco-problems, where the society inside them rallies against human nature in a very evil manner. But at least it has got rid of anorexia among copious other problems those with mirrors hoist on themselves. And self-harming does so seldom feature as a further case in point among sci-fi metaphors.
Similarly , the series is valuable for the adult reader, and I certainly found much to entertain me in these 1200 pages. At times I fell through them headlong, and certainly needed my gravity cuffs to bring me to earth safely. The action scenes here, as elsewhere in the trilogy, are very vivid, and just one more benefit from this worthwhile and enjoyable series.
I must thank Simon and Schuster for sending me them as review copies.
Scott's latest series started with [[Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld|Leviathan]]. [[Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Books in Chronological Order]]
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