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Reader reviewed by Dede

Extras was an okay book and there were parts of it that really caught my attention. However, it started feeling repetitive. I'll explain why: Aya Fuse is an Extra. She wants to be popular (like Tally wanting to be Pretty) like her older brother. She learns that what she wants may not actually be what she truly wants. Tally has a robot friend name "Moggle" who has been tweaked to record/take pictures/follow her around. She joins this click of girls who do crazy stunts but don't want to be famous. They witness mysterious beings opening a "door" into a tunnel and moving in mysterious orbs. Tally breaks the story and becomes famous and gains the attention of none other than Tally Youngblood, who comes to help Aya through the trouble that comes from breaking the story. At times, Tally is portrayed as not very like-able and I got tired of reading how much it would hurt if you fell from the hoverboard and the crash bracelets yanked you to a stop, or reading about these actual falls. We are reintroduced to Tally, Shay, Fausto, David and Andrew Simpson Smith to name a few, and the adventure Aya goes on is interesting, but only in certain places and not really enough to keep my attention for long. The ending was worth reading the whole book though. As much as I like this series, I hope Scott leaves it be now.