Ugly

        Hello! I actually read two books in the same series and really liked the second book in the series called Pretties. But before I start talking about Pretties, I have to tell you about the first book, Uglies.

This book is about a girl named Tally. All her life she has wanted to become 'pretty'. You only become pretty when you're sixteen. You do this through surgery, they peel off your skin, grind down your teeth and make you look exactly like everyone else in the world who is a pretty. Oh and did I mention that they put a little extra something in your brain so that it keeps you 'bubbly' and compliant. Sounds fun right? Well, Tally's friend Shay didn't think so.
        A couple of Shay's friends had actually run away with a man named David to a place called the Smoke. The Smoke was a place for people who didn't want to become pretty to go. Shay wanted Tally to come with her to the Smoke but why would Tally, who only ever want to be pretty leave to be ugly the rest of her life? In the end Shay leaves with the mysterious David that Tally never met and Tally waits a few more days to become pretty and go to the city and party with her old friends. 
       Unfortunately for Tally, Shays wrongdoings have gotten Tally some unwanted attention from some higher up people, A.K.A. Dr. Cable. Dr. Cable is a 'special' they have a certain type of appearance and presence that gives you chills.
       " Instead of wise and confident, the man looked cold, commanding, intimidating, like some regal animal of prey" (101).
         Specials are also extremely strong and can put anybody in their path on the ground.
      "They moved in a blur, without any weapons that Tally could see, leaving everyone in their wake lying on the ground, bound and dazed. They were superhumanly fast and strong" (288).
      Dr. Cable wanted to find the Smoke but needed Tally's help to do it, for if you weren't ugly you would never find the Smoke. Shay had left Tally instructions on how to get to the Smoke if Tally ever wanted to go. Dr. Cable wouldn't let Tally get her operation unless Tally found the Smoke. Her choices were to betray all her friends to become pretty or stay ugly her whole life. She chose betrayal.
      After a long adventure Tally finally found the Smoke but she wanted to stay for a typical teenage reason: she found love. <3

She tossed the locket that gave away her position to Dr. Cable in the fire, very dramatically I might add and went to sleep. It turned out that Tally gave her position away by trying to be dramatic and all the Specials were there the next day to gather all the little uglies. 
     In the end Tally ends up becoming Pretty because David's mom comes up with a cure to the lesions( the things inside your brain) but they don't have a willing pretty to try it on. So Tally becomes pretty for the cause. Do you think you would have the courage, like Tally, to give up your free will to save people you don't even know?