That they must fight back in any way they can.

Then (in typical YA fashion), our heroine meets a bad boy who convinces her that yes, this revolution is truly worth it. Everything is foggy and is so difficult to maintain alertness. Only, when Tally becomes Pretty, it's becoming harder and harder to remember why she fought so hard to keep her mind. There (might) be a cure to the lesions and there needs to be a test subject. They nearly killed the planet with their pollution and strip mining.humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.Tally Youngblood, despite being horrified at what was done to the Pretties, undergoes the operation herself. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities.” This operation was deemed necessary to save the remains of society - just look at the 'Rusties' - aka everyone who used fossil fuels and started wars.

Everything is 'bubbly' and 'happy-making.' “Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. These lesions made Pretties incapable of anger, meanness and anything that required difficultly. Well, until (in typical YA fashion), she learns that her loving and kind government actually inserted lesions into the brain thus neutering the population. What happens when perfection isn't good enough? Undergoing the Pretty Operation - aka the mandated set of operations at age 16 designed to make everyone as beautiful as possible - was all that Tally ever dreamed of. Did she really promise to give all this up? Is she bound by a promise she made when she was a different person? If there is anything left of the old Tally, how will she fight her way out to keep her word and help her friends? When someone from her Ugly life shows up with a message, Tally has a hard time listening. She doesn't think she needs any kind of cure at all. The new, Pretty Tally is totally happy right where she is. She vowed to accept the operation, but with the understanding that her friends on the outside would rescue her, and let her be the guinea pig for the experimental and highly dangerous cure they're developing.īut in the second book of the Uglies series, Tally's Pretty. Just before her birthday, Tally discovered that turning Pretty comes with a terrible price. In Tally's world, your 16th birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellant Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is having a really good time.

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