Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

Author: Scott Westerfeld

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Rated 9/10

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.

But beneath all the fun — the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom — is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.

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 REVIEW
This is the second book in the Uglies series and it was awesome. I didn't like it as much as the first book but it was still a really good read, has an original plot with lots of action. Tally Youngblood is now a pretty, having sacraficed herself to see if the cure would work. She has vague memories of life as an ugly and living in the Smoke. She's now bestfriends again with Shay and trying to get into the Crims, a pretty clique known for being bubbly(a pretty term).One night at a party Tally is attending she runs into someone from her past as an ugly and is told where she can find something that's meant for her. The next morning while having breakfast with Zane, the leader of the Crims, she tells him about it after he tells her he thinks there is something wrong with their brains after they are turned into pretties. Together they go and get the letter and pills that are supposed to cure the pretty mindframe. After Tally and Zane are cured they soon get to work trying to tell the new Smokies and find a way out of the city. When they finally manage to escape though things go wrong for Tally, she is then lost in the wild and looking for her way to the Rusty Ruins to find the new Smokies and the Crims that escaped with her. She soon comes upon a group of people in the wild who thinks because she is a pretty that she is a god and live like prerusties without any technology. Tally soon realizes they are part of an experiment used to look at the fundementals of human nature like violence and revenge.