I find both their personalities fascinating. I like to see how their friendship changes depending on their 'condition' (Ugly, Pretty.). They follow the same route, but have very different attitudes towards other people and situations. Tally and Shay's friendship evolves through the books. I honestly hope some good will come out of all of it because, girl, that's some serious bad luck! Everything she does ends up ruining her chances each time a bit more. I found that Tally's love life (if not life in general) is quite complicated. Will he forgive her? Will he not? Is he still Ugly alive? In the meantime, Pretty Tally becomes closer to another guy, Zane, who is as Pretty and bubbly (meaning aware) as her. So when Tally recovers her intelligence and memories, there is a big question-mark on David. The brain-washing looks very real and you just want to put your hands in the book, grab Tally and shake her to make her realise what she has become!Īt the end of Uglies, Tally leaves David without them having an explanation over that little betrayal thing she did which ended up killing David's dad. It is very interesting seeing the intelligent Tally from the first book evolve in this two-dimensional being. The world has only two dimensions: Pretty/Bubbly/Interesting/Worthy or Ugly/Bogus/Boring/Worthless. Things are bubbly (exciting or aware) or bogus (bad or boring). Alongside attitudes, it is an entire language that comes with being Pretty. I liked that the characters are different when they go from Ugly to Pretty and that it is difficult to pass from one state of stupidity to another of awareness. But she has some moments of lucidity and it all becomes clear how just utterly boring and useless the Pretties are.

Tally is at first a real Pretty, she is concerned about what she wears and how she is perceived by others. Pretties do grow up and might even get a job and grow old, but that's hardly the point of the book!įrom what we learned in Uglies (major spoiler, dude, don't read if you haven't read the first book), becoming Pretty isn't only a physical change, the evil doctors behind the operation also induce lesions in the brain in order to make people docile as well as Pretty by making them focus on their own pleasure and physical attributes and not think too much about the rest. Before 16 years old, all human beings live as 'Uglies' in a certain part of their city, and at 16, when they do the surgical operation that will transform them in 'Pretties', they go live in another part of the city reserved for the Pretties. These entities live in complete autarky, only the people in the highest spheres of power can come and go out of the zone as they please. It is divided in small entities mostly isolated one from the other. The world he created - supposed to be our future in 300 years - is awesome.

The pretties scott westerfeld