Uglies

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 16^th 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