| Pretties (Uglies #2) | Scott Westerfeld |
| Published - 2005 | Format - Paperback | Pages - 384 |
| Goodreads | My Rating 6/10 |
WARNING: This review will include spoilers for the first two books in the Uglies series (Uglies and Pretties). If you have not read these books then please do not read any further. You have been warned.
Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong.
Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.
Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive.
| My thoughts |
This
book begins a few months after Tally's operation to turn her from an
'ugly' into a 'pretty' so that they can test the cure on her. So
Tally is now living in New Pretty Town with Shay and Peris as a
pretty.
Life
as a pretty is basically one was hazy sorority party with the
non-stop parties, not a care in the world, other then to find a
costume to wear, and where everyone is completely stunning. Sound
prefect? Well think again. Because under that perfectly pretty
exterior there is some ugly secrets. Memory loss anyone?
So,
of course with Tally being a pretty, it is like learning to like and
know a whole new character. As well as learning about the lifestyle
in which the pretties live and learning the 'pretty words'. By the
end of the book, words like bubbly and fun-making were driving me up
the wall.
Anyway,
early on in the book we find out that adrenaline helps them remember
their lives before they turned pretty. So the clique that Tally joins
called The Crims pulls tricks to help them remember, these ticks of
course being very dangerous and making them walking targets for the
Specials.
The
Specials, aka Special Circumstances, are the authority in the city
and as the saying goes “we don't want to hurt you, but we will if
we have to” the Specials will stop at nothing to stop the truth
about the lesions from coming out and that includes turning them into
Specials. Yeah, at the end of the book they take Tally and turned her
into a Special, do they really think this will stop her? And of
course who is there to help them take her away? Shay of course,
between her and Dr. Cable they have coursed Tally so many problems. I
mean come on Shay, yes Tally betrayed you and the smoke but you have
betrayed them so much more by joining them, telling on them and for
not taking the cure in the first place which would have meant that
Tally would never had to turn pretty and then never would she have
meet Zane and then yet another love triangle in YA book would never
had been started and she would be happy with David without having
everything messed around with. Wow I really hate Shay.
Anyway
to wrap up this review I would say that I definitely preferred the first book in this series as this one just made me go a
little crazy. But I still did enjoy it and can't wait to read the
next two in this series.
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