Sitting on her window sill watching the sun set and the lights of New Pretty Town come alive, Tally Youngblood is in the for the biggest surprise of her life! First, trespassing into New Pretty Town to meet up with an old friend, Tally meets an unexpected friend, Shay. The two girls become friends, closer than ever before. As they count down the days to becoming pretty, Shay makes an almost fatal choice. Leaving Uglyville and venturing out beyond the Rusty Ruins to a thought to be dead zone, The Smoke. Shay leaves as expected, but Tally is not convinced that the Smoke is the best place to live. She would much rather have the operation to become a pretty and meet up with her once good friend, Peris. The choices that Tally is left with are unbearable and, unfortunately for Tally, the choice that she makes, backfires! No one in the Smoke is safe and Tally’s whole world is turning upside down. Will Tally ever become a pretty? A better question would be, will Tally still want to become a pretty?
Uglies is the first in a trilogy and is a good read! It’s a lengthy book, but the chapters aren’t very long so the pages fly by! My recommendations for this book would be anyone who likes to read about betrayal mixed with strong bonds and a little romance.
Reviewed by: BlueBerryBuddy
