When the year 300 makes its way to the world, what do you
think it would be like, how do you imagine the world will function? The Uglies is
the first book of its series by Scott westerfields it takes place in 300 where until
you were 16 you were considered ugly. On your 16th the specials take
you to have the operation turning you into a “pretty” the surgery makes you
beautiful and perfect with full lips great eyes and symmetrical body figure. Everyone is identical and everyone dreams of
being a pretty. Tally Youngblood is one of those uglies who cannot wait to move
out of Uglieville. While tally is waiting for her birthday to come she meets
another ugly shay, only shay does not wish to become a pretty like tally she
wants to rebel and go to an outside group of people called the smoke. She tells
tally the rumors of the smoke and tells her of her interest in going to it but
tally disagrees. So shay leaves tally and runs away to the smoke. Before she
leaves she leaves a note for tally that has clues on how to get to the smoke. When
tally finally gets her chance to become pretty but she is told by Dr. Cable, a
Special that she has to reveal where the smoke is located or she won’t become a
pretty. Even after she promised shay she would keep it a secret she agreed to
help Dr. Cable so she could become a pretty. She ventures out of the city
limits and into the woods carefully following shays clues. After being with the
smokes for a while she meets the leader, David and falls in love. The smoke informs
her actually happens when you turn pretty. The surgery also creates lesions in
the brain so that it makes the pretties more obedient with authority. Tally has
a change in heart and decides to not help the specials destroy the smoke, but
the specials find her and capture everyone but tally and David. Together they planned
to get their friends back and were successful in doing so. They returned to the
Rusty Ruins, a city from our today’s world. While being with the specials David’s
dad had died and they operated on shay and she was pretty and had the lesions. David’s mom had come up with a cure for the lesions,
but shay refused to take them because they had not been tested and could
possibly end in death. Tally risks herself to save her friend so she turned
herself in to have the operation done and take the pills, the only thing is
once your pretty your mind is not the same and convincing herself to take the
pills is her next obstacle. Does she do it? To find out you have to read the
second book of the series The Pretties. If you like the hunger games and if you
are upset that the books end pick up this book and read it. It’s very similar
and very good J
