20...we made it to 20

I just finished this book.

  It is the third in the Uglies trilogy.  Probably the only book in the series that disappointed me.  It wasn't bad, it was just....hmmmm....lacking.  I think this was the only book where I actually thought...yeah right, that will never happen.  Surprising, since the premise is a futuristic society where people have operations to make them pretty at the age of 16 and, unbeknownst to them, a lesion is put in their brains to keep them mellow, and control the societies.  I guess what made it the most frustrating was the introduction of things that hadn't been mentioned before, just for the purpose of amping up the story's conflicts to the next level.  I was also very disappointed with the convenient death of Tally's love interest, in order to bring a neat conclusion to the love triangle that was playing out. 
In all this was a good series, and I enjoyed reading them, and using them in the mentoring/reading/virtues group I've been co-leading.  I'm glad they didn't go all Po-mo on the ending, and leave things devastatingly unresolved, but this last book could have been better. Instead it was rather anti-climactic.  Oh well, can't win em all