Pretties

Summary: Tall Young blood is officially pretty. It’s everything she imagined when she was ugly; the parties, the drinks, the most stunning people around. She’s even apart of the coolest clique the Crims. How can life get much better than that? One problem though no matter how hard she tries Tally can’t seem to be totally pretty-headed like Shay like the rest of her friends. This irks Tally to no end but she pushes it off as a bad hangover forgetting all her past ugly experiences. Until Croy and a few other smokies crash a pretty party with a simple message for Tally: ‘Valentino 217’. Tally and the leader of the crims Zane soon find Valentino 217 and find the cure along with a letter ugly Tally wrote to herself. Soon the idea of being ‘bubbly’ is all the rage and Tally, Zane, and the rest of the Crims are out to find the cure to be completely bubbly. This leads Tally back out to the wilderness to find a permanent cure and on the way discover more about their disturbing society. Even as a pretty Tally YoungBlood is still playing tricks.

Review: Note: Sorry that summary just about sucked. I’m so tired my brain isn’t functioning so this whole review may suck. Anyways, I finally finished Pretties! Gosh, it took me a month (^^;; I’m slow). I really liked it though, not as much as the first one. Zane was a admirable character edition and I liked him. Tally got a little tiring, but Westerfeld is able to keep attention with his plot. We find out more about this disturbing society, especially when Tally meets a ‘savage’ called Andrew. In Uglies you are sort of eased into the plot and Tally’s world, this is not the case in Pretties. Westerfeld throws you in at chapter one and doesn’t let up. Constantly Tally is making new discoveries and more and more people are finding out about the operation and helping the New Smoke grow. Westerfeld spends this book building up the suspense and leaving a lot of questions unanswered, building to what I hope is a climatic finish in Specials. All in all I liked it a lot and it was a decent follow up to Uglies.


Rating: 4.5/5 not as good as the first, still a great book.

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Happy reading!
-She Who Reads A Lot